WORONETZ. 
dropsy, or a consumption. Both the Woronetz 
and the Don supply the inhabitants of all this 
country with an astonishing quantity of fishes ; 
carp being the most abundant : but they have 
also tench, sterlet., Irream, bleak, trout, lamprey, 
perch, and pike. The last absolutely swarm in 
their rivers, and grow to a prodigious size ; but 
it is only the poorer class of people who use it 
for food. When Nature is profuse in her offer- 
ings, the love of novelty induces us to contemn, 
and even to reject, her bounty. 
The change of season, as at Moscow, does not 
take place at Woronetz with that uncertainty 
which characterizes our climate. Winter regu- 
larly begins in December, and ends in the middle 
of March. According to Gmelin , the autumn 
resembles a moderate summer. Vegetation is 
so rapid during spring, that upon the ninth of 
June we saw a pear-tree which had put forth a 
strong scion above a yard in length. We found 
the climate so different from that to which we had 
been lately accustomed, that we were compelled 
to alter our clothing altogether 2 3 . The beams of 
the sun were to us intolerable ; and a south-east 
(2) It is not necessary to mention the precise height of the mercury 
,n the thermometer , because the Reader will find it stated in th eAppcn- 
according to the most accurate daily observation throughout the 
journey. 
