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w dead man's weapons and cloaths ; and generally they fpend 

 ** the whole wealth of the deceafed, by the body's continuing fa 

 " long in the houfe before it is buried s ; what, however, remains, 

 44 and is thus difpofed in heaps on the road, is taken away by 

 &i thefe foreign competitors. 



44 It is alfo a cuftorn with the Eftum, that the bodies of all the 

 " inhabitants £hall be burned ; and if any one can find a fingle- 

 44 bone unconfumed, it is a caufe of anger. Thefe people alfo 

 * 4 have the means- of producing very fevere cold, by which the 

 " dead body continues fo long above ground without putrefying 1 % 

 44 and if any one fets a veflel full of ale or water, they contrive 

 64 that the liquors mail be frozen, be k fummer u or be it winter.'* 



s That is,, by the confequcntial expences. 



1 Phineas Fletcher,, who was ambaflador from Queen Elizabeth to- 

 Ruffia, gives an account ©f the fame practice continuing in fome parts 

 of Mufcovy. " In winter time,, when all is covered with fnow, fo many 

 " as die are piled up in a hovel in the fuburbs,. like billets- on a wood- 

 K Hack j. they ape as hard with the froft as a very ftone, till the fpring- 

 u tide come and refolve the froft, what time every man taketh his dead, 

 u , friend, and committeth him to the ground. " See a note to one of 

 Fletcher's eclogues,, p. 10, printed at Edinburgh, in 1771,, i2mo. See 

 alfo a poem, written at Mofcow, by G. Tuberville^ in the flrft volume of 

 Hakluyt,, p. 386,. where the fame circumftance is dwelt upon, and the- 

 rcafon given,, that the ground cannot be dug. Bodies,, however, are now 

 buried at Mofcow during the winter. 



u This muft have been effected by fome fort of an. ice houfe; and it 

 appears by the Amoenitates Academics, that they have now ice-houies-. 

 in Sweden and Lapland, which they build with mofs. 



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