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For December 1737.

ARTICLE XLI.

Continuation of M. Strahlenberg's Defcription of the North and Eaftern Parts of Europe and Afia.

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Have already gone through the introductory Part of this Work. That which I am now to give an Account of is divided into thirteen Chapters; the firft of which treats very largely of the different Names and Denominations of Ruffia, and clears up their Derivations. Tho' this be a dry and unpleasant Subject, yet many of our Author's Obfervations relating thereto are of great Ufe towards our Acquaintance with the ancient State and Inhabitants of this vaft Empire.

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+ In the XXXIXth Article, beginning at the 387th Page of the preceding Number,

The fecond Chapter opens a more agreeable Profpect. It fixes the Boundaries, Situation and Climate of Ruffia, in general: It discovers the primitive Condition of it: It informs us of fome late Attempts to improve its Traffick: It enters a little into its natural History; and finally, it recites the Obfervations our Author made at Tobolsky upon Eclipfes, and the Variation of the Compafs. He tells us that Russia, when it came firft under the Sovereignty of a fingle Person, was not a fixth Part fo large as it is at prefent. He cautions us against depending too much on the common Accounts of Geographers and Travellers, who reprefent it as very cold, lying in a raw Climate, having longer Winters than Summers, and almoft covered with uncultivated Forefts. Such indifcriminate Defcriptions, he fays, muft not be looked upon as applicable to the whole Country. Indeed, as he owns, the Northern Provinces, which are fituated between the 70th and 60th Degrees of Latitude, and which extend in Length from Weft to Eaft, of which he reckons fifteen, are very cold; their Winter eight or nine Months long; are thinly inhabited; most of them full of Woods, Moraffes and Mountains, fo that very little or no Corn grows there; and the People enjoy not the Benefit and Pleasure of Orchards or Kitchen-Gardens. However, even these are not deftitute of feveral Sorts of Shrubs and wild Fruits, as Strawberries, Rafpberries, Blackberries, Juniper-berries, and black and red Currants; and they have alfo Wild-Fowl, Beafts of Chace, and Fish, in great Plenty. But the Regions which lie between the 60th and 57th Degrees of Latitude, have a milder and better air, are more populous, and have, befides the above-mentioned Fruits, and Store of Game, great Plenty of horned Cattle, Goats, Sheep, and Horfes; likewife all Sorts of Fruits, and are not deftitute of Corn, and Garden Productions. The Inhabitants are more laborious and comely than those in the Southern and more fruitful Countries, and are by their Industry supplied with what Nature has beftow

ed on the others in greater Plenty. As for thofe Provinces that lie between the 57th and 54th Degrees, and extend from West to East; the Air of them is temperate and wholfome; they bring forth all manner of Fruits and Gardening, as alfo Corn in abundance. They are encumbered with few Mountains, Forests or Moraffes; have many Rivers and Lakes, and all Sorts of Venison, Wild-fowl, and Fish, with much Honey and Cattle; in fhort, they enjoy every thing but Wine. And then as for the Provinces included between the 54th and 48th Degrees of Latitude, they have a very warm and temperate Air, and fhort Winters. The whole Extent of them is flat and even, has little Morafs, is well watered, and abounds with Fish. Here are not many Forests, but Venison fufficient. In the Deserts and Plains, very little Snow lies in Winter, it being fo exposed to the Wind that it can settle no where; which is the Cause of a multitude of Game coming thither, during that Season, in Search after Food. These Provinces are moft populous, bring forth all manner of Fruit, and have Plenty of Grain. Near Aftracan are Vines, but tho' the Grapes are large and sweet, yet the Wine made from them is not good, (occafioned, as our Author fuppofes, by the faline Quality of the Soil) neither will it keep: But the Vines that are cultivated farther fouthward yield a better Wine than those which grow in Saxony. And tho', as he says, on the Crim-Tartarian and Kubanian Borders, feveral vaft Tracts lie uncultivated; yet this is not owing to any Sterility or Deficiency of the Climate, but partly because in Spring the Wolga overflows on both Sides, for many Miles together, towards Aftracan; and partly on account of the Ravages and Inroads the Inhabitants are exposed to from the Tartars, who are their Neighbours. There are fome other Gifts befides the abovementioned, which Nature has bestowed on the feveral Parts of Ruffia, which are taken notice of, when an Account is given of the Mines and Minerals of this Empire.

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In the feventh and three following Paragraphs of this Chapter, we have several Particulars relating to the Rivers of Ruffia and Siberia. Moft of them, our Author fays, are navigable. He names the principal of them, and obferves what a Conveniency they are to the Inhabitants; not only for their Commerce, and mutual Intercourfe; but because, as the Provinces of this Dominion lie in different Climates, if their Crops fhould fail, in fome one or other of them, they may, by means of thefe Strcams, eafily be fupplied with Bread and Corn from the reft. The late Czar, as he tells us, in order to facilitate all these Advantages the more, had formed fix Projects for joining these Rivers by Canals, three of which are actually compleated. Thefe, according to his Defcription of them, are Performances of unfpeakable Ufe, and are Evidences of the enterprizing Genius of that Hero by whom they were executed.

The Rivers of Siberia, he fays, have many of them, naturally, a Communication with one another; and where they have not, it may be effected with a very fmall Trouble. There are two Places especially which might, as he remarks, be cut through with an inconfiderable Labour, whereby a great Circuit would be avoided in going to China, as well as to Mungalia. Thefe Spots being thinly peopled and little vifited, is the Realon, he thinks, of their being unminded: and befides, Colonies must be established there, before fuch a Work as he hints could be undertaken: Perhaps had Providence protracted the Life of Peter the Great, who had form'd and conducted fo many glorious Designs for the aggrandifing of his People, this, which appears fo conducive to that Purpose, had e're now been, not only thought of, but finished; or it may be it is reserved for the halcyon Days of that illuftrious Heroine, who now fways the Ruffian Sceptre. In fhort, this mighty Kingdom, our Author fays, is fo fituated, as to be able to carry on a Traffic, by Water and by Land, both within itself and with all the four Parts of the World.

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