FROM WORONETZ 
owing to a shameful and an obstinate neglect 
of remedies, which, in her case, promised every 
success. The police-officer gave in his me- 
morial, and her body was committed to the 
grave. 
We left JVoronetz, June 12th; crossing the 
river at the bottom of the town, and entering 
plains as before. The swamps below Woronetz 
at once explain the cause of the annual fevers 
to which its inhabitants are liable : they exhale, 
during warm seasons, vapours as unwhole- 
some as those which arise from the fens of 
Italy. 
There are few finer prospects than that of 
Woronetz, viewed a few versts from the town, 
on the road to Paulovskoy. Throughout the 
whole of this country are seen, dispersed over 
immense plains, mounds of earth covered with 
a fine turf; the sepulchres of the antient world, 
common to almost every habitable country. If 
there exist any thing of former times, which 
may afford monuments of primeval manners, 
it is this mode of burial. They seem to mark 
the progress of mankind in the first ages after 
the dispersion ; rising wherever the posterity 
of Noah came. Whether under the form of a 
Mound in Scandinavia, in Russia, or in North 
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CHAP. 
XI. 
