Travels Through Holland, Flanders, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Lapland, Russia, the Ukraine, and Poland, in the Years 1768, 1769, and 1770: In which is Particularly Minuted, the Present State of Those Countries, Respecting Their Agriculture, Population, Manufactures, Commerce, the Arts, and Useful Undertakings, Nide 3J. Almon, 1772 |
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Sivu 177 - And our writers of geography, who are every day publifhing, copy each other in fo flavifh a manner, that a fact in 1578 is handed down to us as the only information we can have in 1769 ; a circumftance which reigns in all the books of general geography that I have feen. Let me here add, that I have, in travelling to gain information, vifited thofe countries about which it would be in vain to confult books ; for, Holland and Flanders alone excepted, all the reft of the prefent journey is through countries,...
Sivu 109 - It goes a little way up the Wolga, then the Tuertza, pafles through a canal into the fea, from thence into the Mefta, and by...
Sivu 311 - ... their houfes and little farms make a much better appearance ; they have more and better cattle; fome of them are in pofleffion of fmall pieces of land which they have purchafed, and all are extremely tenacious of this kind of property; they do not work for their mafters more than, three days in a week. It is always to be remarked, that the gradations of freedom are ever to be found in mountainous countries; in. general fuch are free ; but even under abfolute monarchs they enjoy more liberty,...
Sivu 109 - I faw in this port a floop built at Cafan, from whence it came by the rivers I...