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Manage the fihhing, and purfue the courfe They light the fhining lamp, prepare the feaft, 
With more extended nerves, and more continued And with full mirth receive the welcome guett ; 
force ? Or tell their tender loves (the only care 
And when declining day forfakes their fky ; Which now they fuffer) to the lift’ning Fair; 
When gathering clouds {peak gloomy Winternigh, And rais’d in pleafure, or repos'd in eafe, 
With plenty for the coming {eafom bleft, (Grateful alternates of fubftantial peace) 
Six folid months (an age) they live releas‘d They blefs the long nofturnal influence fhed 
From all the labor, procefs, clamor, woe, On the crown'd goblet, and the genial bed. 
Which our fad {cenes of daily aétion know : 
With greater reality {peaks that juft obferver of nature, the naturalift’s poet, 
of the inhabitants of this very country, ‘as a true contraft to the foregoing 
lines : 
Hard by thefe fhores, where fcarce his freezing They wafte the tedious gloom. Immers’d in 
ftream furs, 
Rolls the wild Ody, live the laft of men ; Doze the grefs race. Nor fprightly jeft, nor fong, 
And half enliven’d by the diftant fun, Nor tendernefs they know ; nor aught of life, 
That rears and ripens man as well as plants, Beyond the kindred bears that ftalk without. 
Here human nature wears its rudeft form. Till morn appears, her rofes dropping all, 
Deep from the piercing feafon, funk in caves, Sheds a long twilight bright’ning o’er the fields, 
Here, by dull fires, and with unjoyous chear, And calls the quiver’d favage to the chace. 
THOMSON, 
This amazing extent of the 4fatic Ruffian dominions remained undifcovered’ 
to a very late period. The Czars, immerfed in fenfuality, or engaged in wars, 
had neither tafte or leifure to explore new countries. A plundering excurfion 
was made into it inthe reign of Bafjlovitz 1; a fecond was made under his fuc= 
ceffor : but a ftranger, the celebrated Coffac, Yermac, driven from his country 
on the fhores of the Ca/pian fea, pufhed his way with a refolute band as far as 
Orel, near the head of the Kama, on the weltern fide of the Uvallian chain. 
There he met with one Strogonoff, a Ruffian merchant, recently fettled in thofe 
parts for the fake of the traffic of furs. He continued in that neighborhood the 
whole winter, and was fupplied by the Ru/fans with all neceffaries. In the fpring he 
turned his arms again{t Kutchum Chan, one of the moft powerful of the petty princes 
of the country which now forms part of the government of Tobol/ei. In 1581,. 
he fought a decifive battle with the Chan, overthrew him, and feated himfelf 
on the'throne. Finding his fituation precarious, he ceded his conquefts to Ba- 
filovitz, who feized on the opportunity of adding this country to his dominions. 
He fent Yermac a fupply of men. But at length his good fortune forfook him. 
He was furprized by the Chan ; and, after performing all that a hero could doy. 
perifhed in attempting to efcape, 
The. 
