text:  According to the learned academician Koeppen of St Petersburg in a lengthened memoir upon the subject the total population of Russia inclusive of Poland Finland and Trans-Caucasian provinces ascended in 1839 to 65 000 000 Or of Russia Proper alone 55 500 000 With an empire so gigantic a population so large however disproportioned as compared with territory and with resources so incalculable it must appear extraordinary that foreign commercial relations are so limited