TO NICHOLAEF. 
to point out an original connection between the 
Laplanders and Tahlars ; as it is now generally 
admitted that America was peopled by colonies 
from Asia, passing the Aleoutan Isles. When 
the Moravians made their settlement upon the 
coast of Labrador, they employed a Greenland 
Interpreter, in order to converse with the 
natives, who are distinguished by the copper- 
coloured complexion and the features ol the 
Nagay Tahtars and Laplanders. The Crimean 
Tahtar is a person of much more stately 
demeanour than the Nagay ; he is farther 
advanced in civilization ; he possesses a better 
figure; and he is often distinguished by very 
engaging manners. Many of the Crimean 
Tahtars annually leave the Crimea, upon a pilgri- 
mage to Mecca and Medina ; so that a continual 
intercourse with other nations has contributed 
to their superior station in the general scale 
of society. A Crimean Tahtar must either make 
this pilgrimage himself, once in his life ; or 
he must send a representative, and defray the 
expenses of the journey. Those pilgrims 
proceed first to Constantinople : here the main 
body divides ; a part chusing the shortest 
route by Alexandria, where they join the 
Egyptian caravan, and the rest advancing by 
the way of Syria, to Damascus, See. The first 
route is liable to the greater inconvenience, 
