PREFACE. 
H 
AV I N G lately received from 
my very learned friend and cor- 
refpondent Mr. Stjehlin, Coun- 
fellor of State to the Emprefs of 
Ruflia, Secretary of the Imperial 
Academy of Petersburg, and laft 
year elected one of the foreign mem- 
bers of the Royal Society, a fhort, 
and, as he calls it, preliminary ac- 
count, drawn up by himfelf of the 
new difcoveries of the Ruffians, I 
thought a tranflation of it would 
not be unacceptable to the cu- 
rious. 
Everv 
