This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.
Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original
book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not
illustrated. 1848 edition. Excerpt: ...The European traders were,
Italian, Ragusan, Austrian, and Dalmatian; and-in 1805, a few
French, but under English colours, and with Mahzese crews. These
bring French wines, and German and English cloth. They carry back
fish and iron.--Heber's MS. Journal. " " In winter the greatest
fishery is carried on. Holes are made in the ice, at small
distances; and the net passed under from each of these to the next
in sueeession, by means of a pole, until a largo tract is inolosed.
Christmas is consequently as busy a time as Midsummer, and a mild
winter is ruinous."--Ilebea-'.s MS. Journal. 'l' A poud equals
thirty-six pounds of English weight; but some writers, among others
the translator of Pallas': Travel: through the South of Russia,
8:0. state it as equal to forty.-,5 I The canal of communication
between the Volga and the Don, according to Perry, (p. 3.) would
have been 140 versts, because it would have followed the course of
two other small rivers; the Lavla, which falls into the Don, and
the Camishinka, which falls into the Volga: but the section for the
canal would not much rflie Great projected a canal, and which it
was Paul': intention to have completed. A draught of the intended
commu nication between the Euxine and the Caspian Sea, by means of
this canal, was first published by Perry, the English engineer,
Wlrho was employed by Peter for the undertaking. That is not the
least interesting part of Perry's narrative, which relates the
conduct of the Russian government towards him, because it shows the
false glare which played about the greatest sovereign they ever
had. Russia is, and was, and ever will be, that point in the great
circle of society, where the extremes of meanness and
magnificence...
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