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generally tranfacfted. Some few indeed fpeak broken 

 Ruffian, but their pronunciation is lb loft and delicate, 

 that it is difficult to comprehend them. They are not 

 able to pronounce the R, but inllead of it make ufe of 

 an L; and when two confonants come together, which 

 frequently occurs in the Ruffian tongue, they divide 

 them by the interpolition of a vowel*"'. This failure 

 in articulating the Ruffian language fecms peculiar to 

 the Chinefe, and 'is not obfervable in the Calmucs, 

 Mongols, and other neighbouring nations t. 



The commerce between the Ruffians and Chinefe is 

 entirely a trade of barter, that is, an exchange of one 

 merchandize for another. The Ruffians are prohibited 

 to export their own coin, nor indeed could the Chinele 



"* Bayer, in his IMufeum Sinicum, gives feveral curious inftances of 

 the Chinefe mode of articulating thofe founds, which they have not in 

 their own language. For inftance they change B DR X Z into P T LS S. 

 Thus for Maria they fay Ma-li-ya ; 



for crux, cu-lu-fu ; 



for baptizo, pa-pe-ti-fo ; 



for cardinalis, kia-ul-fi-na-li-fu ■; 



for fpiritus, fu-pi-li«tu-fu ; 



for Adam, va-tam.; 



for Eva, nge-va ; 



for Chriftus, ki-li-fu-tu-fu ; 



Hoc, ti\, corpus, meuni ho-ke, nge-fu-tu, coul-pu-fu, me-vum. 



Bayer, MuL Sin. Tom. I. jp.- 15• 

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f Pallas Reife, P. III. p. 134. 



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