VALLEY OF TCHORGONA. 
then appears a chopfallen, stupid, brow-beaten, chap. 
sullen clown. The Russian commanders may y — 
class under the same description ; with this 
difference, that they are more profligate. A 
Russian Prince and a Russian peasant exhibit 
the same striking traits of national character 1 . 
Upon the rocks behind the house of Mr. Salvia 
r • i • i i r* Hablit 
Hablitz, we found the identical plant Pallas iana . 
distinguished by the name of his friend, Salvia 
Hablitziana , growing in great abundance. Mr. 
(1) Butler, with singular felicity of delineation, has afforded, in his 
Iiudibras, so faithful a portrait of a Russian General, that no person 
acquainted with the country will read it, without acknowledging the 
representation to be as accurate as if Potemkin himself had sat for the 
picture : 
“ He was by birth, sonic authors write, 
A Russian, some a Muscovite, 
And ’mong the Cossacks had been bred. 
Of whom we in diuruals read. 
That serve to fill up pages here. 
As with their bodies ditches there 2 . 
Scrimansky was his cousin-german, 
With whom he served, and fed on vermin : 
And when these failed he’d suck his claws, 
And quarter himself upon his paws. 
And though his countrymen, the Huns, 
Did stew their meat between their bums 
And th’ horses' backs, o’er which they straddle. 
And every man eat up his saddle ; 
He was not half so nice as they. 
But eat it raw when ’t came in his way.” 
Hudib. Part I. Cant. 2. 
(2) Potemkin died in a ditch near l ossy; and after his interment in 
the church at Cherson, his body was taken up, by order of the Emperor 
Paul, and cast into the fosse of the fortress. 
