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Yeraslave. 



YEraslave also is a Towne of some good fame, for the 

 commodities of hides, tallow, and corne, which it 

 yeeldes in great abundance. Cakes of waxe are there also 

 to bee solde, although other places have greater store : 

 this Yeraslave is distant from Mosco, about two hundred 

 miles : and betwixt them are many populous villages. 

 Their fields yeeld such store of corne, that in convaying it 

 towards Mosco, sometimes in a forenoone, a man shall 

 see seven hundred or eight hundred sleds, going and 

 comming, laden with corne and salt fish : the people 

 come a thousand miles to Mosco, to buy that corne, and 

 then cary it away upon sleds : and these are those people 

 that dwell in the North parts, where the colde is so 

 terrible, that no corne doth growe there, or if it spring up, 

 it never comes to ripenesse. The commodities that they 

 bring with them, are saltfish, skinnes, and hides. 



[I. 252.] Vologda. 



Ologda being from Mosco, 550. miles yeeldes the 

 commodities of Hempe and Flaxe also : although 

 the greatest store of Flaxe is solde at Novogrode. 



Plesco. 



THe Towne of Plesco, is frequented of Marchants for 

 the good store of Honie and Waxe that it yeeldeth. 



Colmagro. 



THe North parts of Russia yeelde very rare and 

 precious skinnes : and amongst the rest, those 

 principally, which we call Sables, worne about the neckes 

 of our Noble women and Ladies : it hath also Martins 

 skinnes, white, blacke, and red Foxe skinnes, skinnes of 

 Hares, and Ermyns, and others, which they call and 

 terme barbarously, as Bevers, Minxes, and Minivers. 

 The sea adjoyning, breedes a certaine beast, which they 

 call the Mors, which seeketh his foode upon the rockes, 



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