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The Publijher unto the Reader. 



ducticn of feveral Ruffian, Folijh, and Lithuanian Names of Men and Countries. 

 After the devastation of their Com- trey they would notwithftanding have foon re- 

 covered their former Grandeur, had not Divifions and Inteftine Wars long kept 

 them low j and at length after divers wonderful and great Revolutions given 

 the Ruffes leifure tirft to breath, and then invite them to deprive them of the belt 

 part of their Dominion. They not able to refift,being brOken,as I faid,by Difcord and 

 Divifion into divers p^tty Principalities. And on the other fide , the Crim Tartar, 

 ailiiled by the Z*r£> fubdued the remainder, whereby that Tribe which before 

 • was comparatively inconiiderable, became Supreme, and is at this day a terror un- 

 to all the North-Eaft Countries of Chriliendom. To (hew in what manner, and 

 by what degrees all this was tranfadted, is rather matter of a juft Hiftory, than of 

 a Preface? the decorum whereof I have already tranfgreiTed, in making a Porch almoft 

 as large as the main Building, to which it mould ferve only for an Entrance. 



I (hall therefore conclude with fomefhort and flight Remarks on divers PafTages in 

 cur Authors Relation. His account of the Teriplus of the Euxine Sea , (leaving out 

 what he allows for the Teine Scaler Talus MwftOdiffcrs little in number of Miles from 

 that of Arthur though they difagree femewhat in particular diftances ■■> and is wonder- 

 fully confonant to that calculation of Eratofthones, Hecattus, Ttdl&my, and Ammianus 

 Marcelinus, who reckon it to amount unto 23000 Stadia, or 2575 Miles, which 

 wants but 1 5 of our Travellers Computation. 



He is alfomore particular.and I believe,more exact than any I have hitherto met with, 

 in his Description of Crim or Taurica Cberfonefus, whofe length and breadth he gives 

 us in feveral places diredly, or by ccnfequcnce. What he tells us concerning Arbot- 

 ka and the great Field without it, furrcunded by the Sea he calls The Ratten Sea, is 

 fcarcely mentioned by any Modern Geographer, but wonderfully confonant to what 

 is delivered by Strobe* Arbcthj feems to be Tafbre, the Ratten Sea, he calls ca^av 

 A»/ur»r, or Law putris, and affirms to be part of the Talus. Meotis : in compafs 400O 

 furlongs,- with divers other particulars, confirming our Travellers Difcourfe, as may 

 be read at large in his feventhBook. And I find in a Difcourfe pubiifhed by Mr* 

 Thcvcnot concerning the Tartars, written lately by a Religious Miffionary who long 

 refided in thofe parts, a Dclcription of this place very futable unto our Author. His 

 words are thefe, fpeakin$of the moft remarkable places in Crim. Arbotec eft un Cha- 



PaUiJade qui sende aunemera i autre ; ta jrcm/ijHit 9* ^j/cmic. ^ w wwi^w., 

 Cofa, a caufc qeUe a la forme d'unefaulx, cejl on ce lieu on le Chan tient fon Haras qui eft 

 hien de fePtante mille Cbcvaux. Et il efi un deftroit entre la terre ferme e Cofa 2 00 fas de 

 large quieftgayable quand il eft calmeje Coffaques le paffent quand lis vont derober le Che* 

 vaux de haras de Cham. 



What our Author tells us of the Communication between the Tanais and Volga at 

 Camufshanka, is particularly defcribed by Olearius, who wrote many years after him* 

 who alfo agrees with us in his account of the Rivers of Circaffia, and Comukgs Coun- 

 treyi only our Writer is more punctual in his Defcription of their Sourfes and Courfe, 

 and mentions two or three omitted by Olearius, or unknown to him. A frequent 

 mention is made by Trocopius, Agathias, and others of the Bizantine Hiftonans, of that 

 ft raft f#Tage between Georgia and Anadoule, or as they word it, between Colchis and 

 Ajfa UStnor, or Armenia. 



Out Author having given an account of the Courfe of the Volga, and of the moft 

 remarkable places lying upon, or near it i atlaft affuresus, That it empties it felf in- 

 to the Cafbian Sea only by 22 Mouthes, whofe names he there rehearfes :. whereas 

 other Writers afcribe unto it 70 Entrances,though as Olearius judiciouily obferves,moft 

 of them are rather paiTages made by the Sea between Iflands and broken Ground,than 

 proper diftind Arms or Branches of the forementioned Rivers. 



What is faid concerning the Coffacks retiring unto, and neftmg in an Wand of the 

 Ca#ian$a, is confirmed by a Ute French Writer, who long refided in Verfa He 



