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chap, tutes the outward mark of a virgin, or of a matron. 
. 1H ' ■, Generally speaking, the traveller may pass over 
a vast extent of territory without noticing any 
change in the costume. How very different is 
the case in Italy ! where the mere passage of a 
bridge in the same city, as at Naples, leads to 
a different mode of dress. The male peasants of 
Russia are universally habited, in winter, in a 
jacket made of a sheep's hide, with the wool 
inwards, and a square-crowned red cap with a 
circular edge of black wool round the rim. 
These, with a long black beard, sandals made 
of the bark of the birch-tree, and woollen 
bandages about the legs, complete the dress. 
Tumuli. Conical mounds of earth, or tumuli, occur 
very frequently on this road. The most re- 
markable may be observed in the stage between 
Yezolbisky and Valdai/, on both sides ol the road, 
but chiefly on the left ; and they continue to 
appear from the latter place to Jedrova. Pro- 
fessor Pallas has given a representation of four 
of these tumuli, in a Vignette at the beginning 
of the first volume of his late work’. They are 
common all over the Russian Empire : and 
indeed it may be asked. Where is the country, 
in which such sepulchral hillocks do not appear ? 
(l) Travels through the Southern Provinces, &c. 
