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A late traveller through Ruffia does not 

 ke thefe beauties in a foreft-vifta. " The 

 country, fays he, through which we palled, 

 was ill-calculated to alleviate our fufFerings by 

 transferring our attention from ourfelves to the 

 objedis around us. The road ran, as ftrait 

 as an arrow, through a perpetual foreft. 

 Through the dreary extent of a hundred and 

 ten miles, the gloomy uniformity was only 



broken by a few folitary villages." No 



doubt the continuation of a hundred and ten 

 miles in any one mode of fcenery may be rather 

 fatiguing : but I {hould have thought, that 

 few modes of fcenery were better calculated 

 to transfer the atte?ition from a difagreeable 

 fubjed. I know not indeed what the nature 

 of a vifta through a Ruffian forefl may be : 

 but if it partake of the circumflances that I 

 have juft been defcribing, in this vifta through 

 New-foreft, it muft confift of varieties, which 

 could not eafily be exhaufled. Some circum- 

 flances it affords, which are very pidurefque ; 

 particularly fuch as attend the numerous herds 

 of oxen you every where meet, moving to- 

 wards Peterfburgh. They are brought chiefly 

 from the Ukrain, the nearefl part of which 

 is eight hundred miles from the capital. 



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