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taken with him. A pewter tea-pot 
will become of more importance than 
a chest of plate, and more so than one 
of silver, because it will not be stolen, 
and may be kept equally clean and 
entire. To this be will add, a 
ketile, a saucepan, the top of which 
may be used fora dish, tea, sugar, and 
a large cheese, with several loaves of 
bread made into rusks, and as much 
fresh bread as he thinks willkeep till 
he .has a chance of procuring more. 
Then, while the frost continues, he may 
carry frozea food, such as game, or 
fish, which being congealed, and as 
hatd as flints, may jolt about among 
his kettles in the well of his carriage 
without any chance of injury. Wine 
may be nsed in a cold country, but 
never in a hot, nor even ina temper- 
ate climate, while upon the road. In 
hot countries, if acask of good vine- 
gar can be procured, the traveller will 
often bless the means by wh.fi it 
was obtained. When, witha parched 
tongue, adry and feverish skin, they 
bring him bad or good water, to as. 
suage his burning thirst, the additioa 
wofa little vinegar will make thedraught 
delicious. Care must be taken noi to 
Wse it to exces3, forilis sometimes so 
tempting a remedy against somnolency, 
thet it is hardly possible te resist using 
the vinecar without any adulteraiio 
ef water.” 
Tae account of Novogorod ‘is also 
@uri.duss$ but in whatrelates to Russian 
maniters, both here and in succeeding 
«hapiers, the statements are so widely 
differe tit from what we have been ac- 
custonied to read, that we cannot help 
formin,t a hope that Dr. Clarke may 
have been deceived on his journey. 
To th § end of the ninth chapter, the 
reader 1.8 detained at Moscow: the 
buildings, , manners, ceremonies, and 
inhabitant § of which are minutely de- 
scsibed. iuthe tenth chapter, we ac- 
€ompany Lt. Clarke from Moscow to 
Woronetz; and in the eleventh chap- 
¥er from W«Yonetzto the territory of 
the Don Cos weks. 
this race of p: ople we have the follow- 
Bicremarks: 
“Ido not know whence the notion ° 
Was derived, thet the Cossacks are of 
Polish origin; ‘yt it has become pre- 
Walent, anda stasonable opportunity: 
ew offers,io shew that it is founded 
in error. .The Cossacks have been 
Known, as a disfinct people, “near nine 
hundred years. 
On the origin of. 
Accordisg to Cone: 
stantine Porphyrogenites, their name 
has continued unaltered, since the time 
in which he wrote, It is found in the 
appellation of a tribe rear mount Caue- 
casus. ‘* And beyond the Russian 
country,” says he, ‘‘is the country 
called Casachia; but beyond the Cos- 
sacks are the summits of Caucasus.” 
It is impossible to obtain more strik. 
ing information. | Our countryman, 
Jonas Hanway, calls the Don Cossacks 
‘*a species of Tartars.”’ “Storch, who 
has writtea fully and learnedly on the 
subject, although he admits the resém. - 
blance they bear to Tartars, in their 
mode of life, constitution and features, 
insists that they are of Russian origin. 
Sherer, whohas appropriated his work en- 
tirely to the investigation of their his- 
tory, and continually the notion of 
their Polish origin, nevertheless opens 
his work with an extract of a different 
nature; but it has all the air of a 
fable. Itis taken from Newton’s Rus- 
sian Annals. A Russian prince, and a 
Cossack chief, at the head of their re- 
spective armies, agree to delermme 
their differences by a wrestling match, 
which ends in-the assassination of the 
Cossack by the Russian. This event 
is followed by the sthjugation of the 
Cossack territory. To have seen them, 
and to have lived with them, is snfs 
ficient to establish a convietion that 
they have nothing common with Rus- 
sians, except the languege they now 
speak, and which probably was intro- 
duced when they became converted to 
the Russian church. 
attention at least to what they say of 
themselves. Those of the Don relate, 
that a party of Cossacks being engaged 
in their usual eccupation of hunting, 
near the range of Mount Caucasus, 
met a nomber of people, with 
whom they were strangers, © going 
towards the east; end having inquired 
whethey were, the strangers auswer- 
ed, that they were emigrants from Po-_ 
land, who had fled the oppression of 
their nobles, and were proceeding to - 
Persia, to join the troops of that coun- 
try against the Turks. The Cossacks 
told them they might spare themselves 
the trouble of so lone.a march m or- 
der to commit hostilities against the 
Turks, and persuaded them to returm 
with them to tbe town of Ischerchas- 
koy, where they would find an asylum, 
nd whence in concert with: them, 
they might attack the fortress of Azof. — 
Assisted wiih uhis reinforceiment, is, 
wi 
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