The three localities are all situated on the border-line of the governments of Vitebsk and Moghilev, in which the Hasidim of the _Habad_ persuasion [3] formed either a majority, as was the case in the former government, or a substantial minority, as was the case in the latter.
[Footnote 1: See Vol.

I, p.

372.] [Footnote 2: From the townlet Lubavichi.

See later in the text.] [Footnote 3: Compare Vol.

I, p.