CHAP. XI. 
FROM WOEONETZ, TO THE TERRITORY CF THE 
DON COSSACKS. 
Present state of Woronetz — Climate and productions — 
Garden of I’bter the Great — Inundation and Pro- 
duct of the Rivers — Increase of Buildings — Arsenal — 
Commerce, internal and external — Wine of the Don — 
Change of Manners, and of Features — Neglect of 
Drowned Persons — Tumuli — Male- Russians — Plains 
South of Woronetz — Celo Usman ij — P odulak Moscov- 
slioy — Mojoclts, Eliortzy, and Ieslakovo — Locova Sb- 
loda — Paulovskoy — Plants — Animals — Trade — Rush 
conduct of a young Peasant — Kazinskoy Chutor — Niz- 
ney Momon — Dolrinka — Metscha — Kasankaia , first 
Stanitza of the Don Cossacks. 
C XL I n the reign of Peter the Great, when that 
* ' monarch came to Woronetz to build his first 
