John Ledyard's Journey Through Russia and Siberia, 1787-1788, Volume 2University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1964 - 698 pages |
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Page 247
... Versts from Moscow- Thank Heaven a Petticoat appears ! & thank God the Glimmerings of other features ! How nice this gradation is & yet as plain as the simplest thing in Nature . But Wampum , or if you will , Beads , Fossils , 155 Rings ...
... Versts from Moscow- Thank Heaven a Petticoat appears ! & thank God the Glimmerings of other features ! How nice this gradation is & yet as plain as the simplest thing in Nature . But Wampum , or if you will , Beads , Fossils , 155 Rings ...
Page 249
... Versts ( as I imagined ) S.E. of Polosk.164 I could see nor be informed of any thing . The General at Moscow165 did not know where General Passek was /p.82/ or else General Passek was where he ought not to have been . I suspect the ...
... Versts ( as I imagined ) S.E. of Polosk.164 I could see nor be informed of any thing . The General at Moscow165 did not know where General Passek was /p.82/ or else General Passek was where he ought not to have been . I suspect the ...
Page 272
... Versts to the North , in some places 100 versts , & that those forsaken plains were overspread with old trunk / s / of trees buried in the sand.190 A rich intelligent Mer- chant there called Popoff & brother to the Popoff mentioned I ...
... Versts to the North , in some places 100 versts , & that those forsaken plains were overspread with old trunk / s / of trees buried in the sand.190 A rich intelligent Mer- chant there called Popoff & brother to the Popoff mentioned I ...
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