FROM WORONETZ 
still marks their situation. Again, others, by 
the passage of the plough annually upon their 
surface, have been considerably diminished. 
These Tumuli are the Sepulchres referred to 
by Herodotus, in the earliest accounts which 
history has recorded of this mode of burial*. 
The tombs of the Scythian kings are said, by 
him, to exist in the remotest parts of Scythia, 
where the Borysthenes is first known to be navi- 
gable; and they are further described as being 
constructed precisely according to the appear- 
ance they now exhibit. 
We frequently met with caravans of the 
Malo- Russians, who differ altogether from the 
inhabitants of the rest of Russia. Their fea- 
tures are those of the Polonese, or Cossacks. 
They are a more noble race; stouter and 
better looking than the Russians, and superior 
to them in every thing that can exalt one class 
of men above another. They are cleaner, more 
industrious, more honest, more generous, more 
polite, more courageous, more hospitable, more 
truly pious, and, of course, less superstitious. 
Their language only differs from the Russian, 
as the dialect of the southern provinces of France 
does from the dialect spoken near Paris. They 
(1) Herodot. Melporn. c. 71. 
