A.D. 

 I557- 



The entering 

 of the Bay of 

 S. Nicholas is 

 seven leagues 

 broad at the 

 least. 



[i. 312.] 



August. 



Pinego river. 



The tozvne of 

 Temps. 



Ustiug. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



with an headland called Foxenose, which is from the 

 sayd Island 25 leagues. The entring of this Bay from 

 Crosse Island to the neerest land on the other side is 

 seven leagues over. From Foxenose proceeding forward 

 the twelfth day of the sayd moneth of July, all our 

 foure ships arrived in safetie at the road of Saint Nicholas 

 in the land of Russia, where we ankered, and had sailed 

 from London unto the said roade seven hundred and 

 fifty leagues. The Russian ambassadour and his com- 

 pany with great joy got to shore, and our ships here 

 forthwith discharged themselves : and being laden againe, 

 and having a faire winde, departed toward England the 

 first of August. The third of the sayd moneth I with 

 other of my company came unto the citie of Colmogro, 

 being an hundred verstes from the Bay of Saint Nicholas, 

 and in the latitude of 64 degrees 25 minutes. I tarried 

 at the said Colmogro untill the fifteenth day : and then 

 I departed in a little boate up the great river of Dwina, 

 which runneth very swiftly, and the selfe same day 

 passed by the mouth of the river called Pinego, leaving 

 it on our lefte hand fifteene verstes from Colmogro. 

 On both sides of the mouth of this river Pinego is 

 high land, great rockes of Alablaster, great woods, and 

 Pineapple trees lying along within the ground, which 

 by report have lien there since Noes flood. And thus 

 proceeding forward the nineteenth day in the morning, 

 I came into a town called Yemps, an hundred verstes 

 from Colmogro. All this way along they make much 

 tarre, pitch and ashes of Aspen trees. From thence I 

 came to a place called Ustiug, an ancient citie the last 

 day of August. At this citie meete two rivers : the 

 one called Jug, and the other Sucana, both which fall 

 into the aforesaid river of Dwina. The river Jug hath 

 his spring in the land of the Tartars called Chere- 

 mizzi, joining to the countrey of Permia : and Succana 

 hath his head from a lake not farre from the citie of 

 Vologda. Thus departing from Ustiug, and passing by 

 the river Succana, we came to a towne called Totma. 



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