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the first of his grandees'; princes and nobles CI [ I 2 [ ^ P - 
cane their slaves ; and the slaves, their wives — ' 
and daughters. Ere the sun dawns in Russia, 
flagellation begins; and throughout its vast 
empire, cudgels are going, in every department 
of its population, from morning until night. 
Vyshney Voloshoh is a place of considerable Vyshney 
importance, remarkable for the extensive canals 
on which the great inland navigation of Russia 
is carried on. A junction has been formed 
between the Tvertza and the Msta, uniting, by 
a navigable channel of at least five thousand 
versts, the Caspian with the Baltic Sea*. Per- 
haps there is not in the world an example of 
inland navigation so extensive, obtained by 
artificial means, and with so little labour; for 
the Volga is navigable almost to its source ; and 
three versts, at the utmost, is all the distance 
(1) An officer chastised by the Emperor Paul, upon the Parade at 
Petersburg, retired to his apartment and shot himself. By this it 
should appear, that such ignominy from the hand of an Emperor is 
not common. Peter the Great, however, used to take his Boyars by 
the beard : and all Petersburg knows that Potemkin boxed the ears of 
a Prince who presumed to applaud one of his jokes by clapping the 
hands ; “ IV half said he, “ miscreant ! do you tutu: me for a stage- 
player ? ” 
(2) See the Appendix, for a full account of all the Internal Navi- 
gation of Russia. This valuable document was communicated to the 
author, since the publication of the First Edition, by Robert Corner, 
Esq. a British Officer at Malta. 
