RICHARD CHANCELOR a.d. 



1553- 



Postesora, which bring them upon Hartes to Lampas 



to sell, and from Lampas carie them to a place called 

 Colmogro, where the hie market is holden on Saint 

 Nicholas day. To the West of Colmogro there is a 

 place called Gratanove, in our language Novogorode, 

 where much fine Flaxe and Hempe groweth, and also 

 much waxe and honie. The Dutch marchants have a 

 Staplehouse there. There is also great store of hides, 

 and at a place called Plesco : and thereabout is great 

 store of Flaxe, Hempe, Waxe, Honie ; and that towne 

 is from Colmogro 120 miles. 



There is a place called Vologda ; the commodities 

 whereof are Tallowe, Waxe, and Flaxe : but not so 

 great plenty as is in Gratanove. From Vologda to 

 Colmogro there runneth a river called Duyna, and from 

 thence it falleth into the sea. Colmogro serveth 

 Gratanowe, Vologda and the Mosco with all the countrey 

 thereabout with sake and saltfish. From Vologda to 

 Jeraslave is two hundreth miles : which towne is very 

 great. The commodities thereof are hides, and tallowe, 

 and corne in great plenty, and some Waxe, but not so 

 plentifull as in other places. 



The Mosco is from Jeraslave two hundreth miles. 

 The countrey betwixt them is very wel replenished 

 with small Villages, which are so well filled with people, 

 that it is wonder to see them : the ground is well 

 stored with corne which they carie to the citie of Mosco 

 in such abundance that it is wonder to see it. You 

 shall meete in a morning seven or eight hundred sleds 

 comming or going thither, that carrie corne, and some 

 carie fish. You shall have some that carie corne to 

 the Mosco, and some that fetch corne from thence, that 

 at the least dwell a thousand miles off; and all their 

 cariage is on sleds. Those which come so farre dwell 

 in the North partes of the Dukes dominions, where 

 the cold will suffer no corne to grow, it is so extreme. [I. 238.] 

 They bring thither fishes, furres, and beastes skinnes. 

 In those partes they have but small store of cattell. 

 11 225 p 



