PREFACE. 
names, which we are to consider as fixed and, 
naturalized in the vulgar tongue ? Are we to write 
Woronetz, or Voroneje ; IVolga, or Folga ; Kiow, 
or Kiofi; Azow, or Azof? Lord Whitworth wrote 
Chiojf and Asoph, although both these names 
have the same original termination . It is the 
B ( Fedy ) redoubled in compound words, which 
occasions the principal difficulty, and which has 
been confounded with our W. Thus, as it is 
mentioned by Stored, from Levesque, the Russian 
word Vvedenic, signifying ‘ introduction,' consists 
of the preposition to or v (into), and vldenie ( to 
conduct). The proper initial letter in English, 
therefore, for this word, would be V, whose 
power it alone possesses ; and not JV, which 
conveys a false idea of pronunciation. When 
this compound occurs as the termination of a 
word, it is best expressed by our f; as Orlof, 
for Or low; which exactly answers the mode of 
pronunciation in Russia. Some writers use the 
letter doubled, as ff : the latter f is however 
superfluous. The plan pursued by the author, 
but to which, perhaps, he has not regularly 
adhered, was to substitute a Vior the Russian 
(1) Account of Russia , by Charles Lord IVUitworth. Strawberry 
Hill y 1758. 
(2) Tableau de l’Empire de Russie, tom. I. p. 19* See also Histmre 
de Russie par Levesque, tom A. p, 17. Hamb. 1800. 
