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X. 



P. 



Tagoda. See Maimatfchin. 



Paikojf' (Bemetri), his voyage, 6i 

 -63. 



Pallas, receives from Bragin a nar- 

 rative of hie adventures and el- 

 cape, p. 88. Account of Kiachta 

 and Maimatfchin, extrafted from 

 his journal, p. 2.29. His pub- 

 lication concerning the Mongol 

 tribes, 230. Lift of plants found 

 by Steller upon the coaftdifcovcr- 

 ed by Bcering in 1741, com- 

 municated by Mr. Pallas — quo- 

 tation from a treatife of his, rela- 

 tive to the plants of the new-dif- 

 covered iflands, 279. Extrafts 

 made by him relative toDeflineff's 

 voyage, p 314—316. 



Pauloffskj, his expedition, in which, 

 after feveral fuccefsful iL'irraiilies 

 ■with the Tfchutski, he is furprifed 

 and killed by them, 296. 



Peacock. See Feathers, 



Pekin. Ruflian fcholars allowed to 

 fettle there, to learn the Chinefe 

 tongue, 209. SceQiravans. 



PcnJJjinsk, 5. 



Peter I. fiill projefled making di(- 

 coveries in the feas between 

 Kamtchatka and America, 20. 



Peterjlurg, length of the different 

 routs between that city and Pekin, 

 248. 



Piafida, a river of Siberia, 309. 



Plenifner (a Courlander), feut on 

 difcoverjes to the N. E. of Sibe- 

 ria, 294. See Daurkin. 



Poloskoff, (Mattheiv), Sent by Ot- 

 cheredin to Uualaflika, 159. 

 Spends the autumn at Akun, and 

 after twice repulling the favages, 

 returns to Otcheredin, 1 59 — 16 1 . 



Popoff (Ivan), a veffel fitted out by 

 him arrives at Unala(hka, 158. 

 See Otcheredin. 



Prontjhlfljhe^ (Lieutenant), his un- 

 fuccefsful attempt to pafs fromthe 

 Lena towards the Yenisei, 306 — 



309- 

 Protaffojf, he and his crew deflroyed 



by the favages, 133. 157. See 

 Med-vedcff. 

 Pufljkareff (Gabriel), his voyage, 

 64 — 6q. Winters uponAlakfu, 

 65. He, with Golodoff and 

 twenty others, attempting to vio- 

 late fome girls, on the ifland 

 Unyumga, are fct upon by the 

 .natives, and at lad obliged to 

 retreat, 65, 66. He and his crew 

 tried for their inhuman behaviour 

 to the iflanders during their voy- 

 age, 67. 



R. 



Rheum. See Rhubarb. 



Rhubarb, that from Ruffia gene- 

 rally called Turkey Rhubarb, and 

 why, 332. Defcription of, ibid. 

 Indian rhubarb inferior to the 

 Tartarian or Turkey, 333. A 

 milk-white fort defcribed, 334. 

 Different fpecies, 335 — 341. 

 Planted in Siberia by M. Zucherr, 

 a German apothecary, 338. Ex- 

 portation of, 342. Superiority 

 of the Tartarian over the Indian 

 Rhubarb, accounted for, 342. 



Riikfa. See Ibiya. 



Roaring Mountain. See UnalaJJ^ka. 



Robert/on (Dr.) See Krenitzln and 

 Levajhejf. 



Round IJland. Sec Krugloi, 



P\.uffia (prcfent Emprefs of), a 

 great promoter of new difco- 

 Z z veries. 



