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PAULOVSKOY. 
chap, nients, tlie bag-pipe, and the Jew's-harp : the 
v former, like that used in North Britain and in 
Finland, is common to the Cossacks as well as 
to the Malo- Russians. Another point of resem- 
blance may be found in the love ol spirituous 
liquors. The Malo-Russians are truly a merry 
race, and much given to drinking : but this habit 
prevails among all barbarous nations. 
Pauiov- From hence we proceeded to Paulovshoy, 
situate upon a high sandy bank, on the eastern 
side of the Don. It is a small town, and at a 
distance makes a pleasing appearance; but 
consists of little more than a church and a few 
scattered wooden houses. The river, broad 
and rapid, here makes a noble appearance : 
barges, laden with corn, were moving with its 
current towards the Sea of Azof. Close to its 
Plants, banks we found a variety of beautiful plants. 
The Stipa pennata, celebrated in Russian songs, 
waved its feathery locks, as in almost all 
the steppes. In the branches of the Artemisia 
campestris, insects had caused excrescences, 
which are used by Tahtar nations in kindling 
their tobacco-pipes. The Climbing Birthwort 
( Aristolochia Clematitis), a rare British plant, 
although found at fVhittlesford in Cambridge- 
shire and at Stanton in Suffolk, appeared among 
Southernwood, JVoody Nightshade, IVater Glow- 
