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let his velTel winter at IVcfl-Spkzbergen, 
which he at lair, after many objections, 
agreed to. 
The contrary winds they met with on 
their paflage, made it impoflible for them 
to reach the place of their destination. 
The vefTcl was driven towards Eafl- 
P 2 Spitsbergen, 
From the beginning of this fchil'm, to the time 
when Petek. the Great abolifhed the patriarchal 
dignity in Ruffia, during the fpace of about fifty 
years, the Rajkolniki were inhumanly ufed, and 
hence many of them lied to the woods r or fafctv; 
but they never were a fct of hermits, as affertedby 
the author of the Nouveau Diftiomialre imivcrffl 
■pour f Intelligence Acs Affaires (VEtat, ties N~ouz'e:lc> 
Jiubliqucs, he. under the article Raskolnikes. 
Many of them are merchants and people of great 
property, and are thought to be more honeft in 
their dealings than the other Ruffians. There are 
hermits in Ruffia, known bv the name of Pcu(l:n::iki: 
thelc arc commonly trades-people, who, being tired 
of the world, ailbciate and retire in fmall companies 
into the wood:,, where they build huts and a church, 
live upon alms, and pais their days in penance and 
prayer; but they nmfi have leave of their ibve- 
reiffn for this uurnofe. 
