TO MOSCOW. 
spring, superstitiously venerated, and attracting chap. 
pilgrims from all parts. This town has no less >■ j 
than twenty churches : some of which are built 
of stone. It is in a thriving condition. 
At Tver, sixty-three versts farther, there is a Tver. 
decent inn. A shop is also annexed to it, as it 
sometimes happens in more northern parts of 
Europe. This shop is kept by Italians, natives 
of the Milanese territory, a vagrant tribe, whose Milanese 
. , ~ Vagrants. 
industry and enterprise carry them from the Lake 
of Como to the remotest regions of the earth. 
They are seen in all countries ; even in Lapland. 
They generally carry a large basket, covered 
with an oil-skin, containing cheap coloured 
prints, mirrors, thermometers, and barometers ; 
being, for the most part, men of ingenuity, of 
uncommon perseverance, industry, and honesty. 
Living with the most scrupulous economy, they 
collect, after many years of wandering, their 
hard earnings, and with these they return to 
settle in the land of their fathers, sending out an 
offspring as vagrant as themselves. 
At Tver we beheld the Volga, and not without Volga. 
considerable interest; for though bound in 
“ thick-ribbed ice,” and covered with snow, the 
consciousness of its mighty waters, navigable 
almost to their source, rolling through a course 
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