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as this furvey had been made in a hurry, by m 'a- 
iuring the roads on horfeback, with a long : ope of 
ten poles, and taking the angles only from village to 
village, 1 cannot depend upon it as entirely corredd. 
The country from Saratof to Dmitrefsk I pafled 
through myfelf ; I meafured one bafe, and then took, 
with an infdrument, the angles of the mold Idriking 
objedts, as hills, villages, and rivers, on both Tides of 
the Volga. On the ealdern fide of that river, I got 
as far as the lake Yelton, and the Tandy defart Ryn, 
always tiling the fame method : from thence I went 
to the river Yerooflan, almold to its very fource, and 
came back again, to the place where it enters the 
Volga ; from thence I proceeded to Saratof, along the 
Volga, redtifying Mr. Reufs’s angles and maps ; and, 
befides, I made an excursion 30 miles above Saratof, 
on the eald Ihore of the Volga. All the places, which 
are marked with lines in my map, are either colonies 
already fettled, or places intended to be filled with co- 
lon! Ids, who were then on their march from Pe- 
terlburgh towards Saratof. When I prefented this 
map to the Academy of Sciences at Peterlburg, it was 
looked upon as an Unique ; for they had in the geo- 
graphic department not one map of this country, 
although more than 3000 MSS. maps and drawings 
were kept in their portefolios. I can, therefore, 
very juldly call this the firld tolerable map ; and who- 
ever will take the trouble of comparing my work with 
Mr. Hanway’s, or Olearius’s map, will ealily fee the re- 
markable difference between them. Mr. Hanwav 
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went in a great hurry over this part of the country, and 
had no inldruments, nor did he make any furvey ; he was 
alfo unacquainted with the language of the country ; 
the 
