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XXXIII. A Letter from Mr. J.R. Forfter, 
F. A. S. to M. Maty, M. I). Sec . R. S. 
containing fome Account of a new Map of. 
. the River Volga. 
Warrington, October 24, 1768. 
R, 
W" Received both your favours of the iff 
and 17th inrtant, in due time. 
I am very glad the committee of the Royal Society 
has done my map of the river Volga * the honour of 
having it engraved and publifhed in their Tranf- 
adtions. 
You wiffied to be informed of the manner in which 
it was conftrudted. I readily comply with your de- 
fire, and fend you the following fhort account, which 
I hope will be fatisfadtory. 
At my arrival at Saratof, which is the chief town 
of the dirtridt given by her Ruffian majefty to the 
German colonies, I got two MSS. maps in Ruffian 
charadters, done by Mr. Reufs, a major, and able 
engineer, in the Ruffian fervice, who went along the 
river Volga, from Saratof to Tfaritfin, by water; and, 
at every winding of the river, went on ffiore to take 
the angles, and to meafure the meadows beyond the 
Volga ; this map was upon five ffieets, parted toge- 
ther. The other MS. map had the fame author, 
confirted of eight ffieets, and deferibed the country 
fromPetroffk and Saratof, to Tfaritfin, along the Volga, 
and wertward to the rivers Choper and Don. It was 
.conrtrudted upon an adlual furvey, in which the ma- 
jor was aflifted by three engineer officers j however, 
* See Tab. IX. p. 216. 
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