21 o MlfcelUneA Curiofa. Vol. II J* 



tbeje Lietters". 



IT may feem wonderful, that the Author 

 of thefe Letters makes mention in his 

 former, of a kind of War between the OW- 

 enpal Tartars and the Mufcovites^ notwith- 

 ftanding the extream diftance .thefe Peo- 

 ple appear to be from one another in our 

 Geographical Charts ; but thofe who know 

 how much the Mufcovites have extended 

 the Bounds of the Empire along the Tarta-^ 

 rian Sea, will judge the thing Icfs difficult, 

 befides thofe who have feen thefe Countries, 

 have made Difcoveries much differing from 

 thofe which our Geographers have informed 

 us of hitherto. Very lately Monjieur D^Arcy^ 

 who commands one of the King's Ships, in 

 the Fleet of Monjieur Le Marefcal Efirees^ 

 informed us, that having ferved in Poland^ 

 and having been made Governor of a Place 

 towards Mofcovy , the Mofcovite Ambaffa- 

 dors in their return having pafs'd by him, 

 and being by him treated in fuch a manner 

 as put them into a very good Humour \ one 

 of them fhewed him a Chart of the Coun- 

 tries between Mofcovy and China : and told 

 him, that from three Cities which he fhew- 

 ed him, whofe Names were Lofjla^ Ahajinh^ 

 Nergifisko^ all three wader the Government 



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