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MOSCOW. 
CHAP, from bad food, and in want of the common 
necessaries of life. Extensive pastures, covered 
with cattle, afford no milk to him. In autumn, 
the harvest yields no bread for his children. 
A selfish and misdoing lord claims all the pro- 
duce. At the end of summer, every road m 
the southern provinces is filled with caravans, 
bearing corn and all sorts of provisions, every 
produce of labour and of the land, to supply 
the nobles of Moscow and Petersburg with the 
means of wealth, and the markets of those two 
capitals, which, like whirlpools, swallow all that 
approaches their vortex, with never-ending- 
voracity 1 . 
(l) “ A few cities enjoy the pleasures of life, and exhibit palaces, 
because whole provinces lie desolate, or contain only "retched hovels, 
iu which you would expect to find bears, rather than men. Secret 
Mem. of the Court of Petersburg, ]>. 368. 
