View of the Russian Empire During the Reign of Catharine the Second, and to the Close of the Eighteenth Century, Nide 1A. Strahan, 1800 |
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Aftrakhan againſt alfo almoſt alſo antient Baaty befides Cafpian called Caucafus chriftian coafts confequently confiderable confifts conqueft Courland courſe diftricts Dniepr eaſtern Efthonians eſpecially eſtabliſhment Euxine falt fame fand fecond feem feen fettled feven feveral fhores fhould fide fince firft firſt fnow fome foon forefts fources fouth fouthern fovereignty fpring ftate ftill fubject fubmitted fuch fummer granite greateſt hiftory higheſt himſelf hofpital hordes houſes hundred increaſe inftitutions inhabitants Irkutsk Irtyfh iſlands itſelf Kazan khan Khazares Kief Kozaks Kuban laft lake Lapland laſt leaſt likewife Livonia Mofco moft Mongoles moſt mountains muſt nations Neva Nogays obfervations occafion Orenburg perfons Permians Peterſburg poffeffion prefent preferved princes provinces purpoſe regions rife Riga river ruffian empire Selenga ſeveral Siberia ſtate ſtems ſteppe ſtill tartarian Tartars Taurida thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand tion town Ural uſe verfts Volga Vyborg weft weſtern whereof whole Yeniffey
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Sivu ix - ... aftonifhing number of tribes and nations by which it is inhabited, the great diverfity of climates under which they live, or the almoft infinite quantity of natural curiofities with which it abounds. But the greater part of this country is ftill immerfed in the profoundeft barbarifm, and almoft inacceffible to the inveftigations of the ordinary traveller. Here vagrant hordes of people, who, entirely addicted to the paftoral life, roam from place to place, fhunning the focial manners of towns...
Sivu 44 - Cronfladt gulf fupplies, in fome meafure, the want of navigation during the winter, by the tranfport of commodities of every denomination over the ice. As ice-cellars here are a neceflary of life, for keeping provifions of all kinds during the fummer, fo every houfe in every quarter of the town is provided with one of them, to be filled with large blocks cut out of the river. This operation generally takes place about the beginning of February. The ice alfo promotes the...
Sivu 30 - is fcarcely fenfible, where the primrofes and " fpring-faffron bloom in February and often in " January, and where the oak frequently retains " its foliage the whole winter through, are, in " regard to botany and rural ceconomy, the nobleft " tract in Taurida and perhaps in the whole extent
Sivu 583 - It contained, at that time, 3000 foundlings ; and, when the whole is completed, will receive 8000. The children are brought to the porter's lodge and admitted without any recommendation. The rooms are lofty and large ; the dormitories, which are feparated from the work rooms, are very airy, and the beds are not crouded : each foundling,.
Sivu 32 - ... in the country the beauties whereof he here paints in fuch warm and poetical colours. As the health of this famous naturalift rendered his living in a warm...
Sivu 31 - fordid purfuit of wealth in great cities, and the " luxury which fills the train of all the focial vices, " render fo foon intolerable to the fincere votaries *' of wifdom *. " In thefe inchanting vallies, to the benefit of " the empire, which no where, in its whole extent...
Sivu 31 - Tartars, who inhabit thcfe paradifaical vales ; their turf-covered cottages, fome hewn in the rock on the mountain's fide, others placed amidft the luxuriant foliage of the furrounding orchards ; the roving flocks of goats and...
Sivu x - Hence thofe iramenfe deferts almoft totally deftitute of cultivation and fo many towns that are falling to decay. Peter the Great, of too penetrating a view not to perceive both the evil and its caufes, took all imaginable pains, and adopted the wifeft meafures...
Sivu 44 - The edifice was fiftytwo two feet in length, fixteen in breadth, and twenty in height. The walls were three feet thick. In the feveral apartments were tables, chairs, beds, and all kinds of houfehold furniture of ice. In front of the palace, befides pyramids and ftatues, ftood fix cannons carrying balls of fix pounds "weight, and two mortars, of ice.
Sivu ix - ... to examine into the nature of their foil, their productions, their wealth, as well as the manners and characters of the feveral people by •whom they are inhabited.