Siberia, Western (Russia) - Description and travel - Early works to 1800

The antidote; or an enquiry into the merits of a book, entitled A journey into Siberia, made in MDCCLXI in Obedience to an Order of the French King, and published, with Approbation, by the Abb�e Chappe D'Auteroche, of the Royal Academy of Sciences: In which many essential Errors and Misrepresentations are pointed out and confuted; and many interesting Anecdotes added, for the better Elucidation of the several Matters necessarily discussed: By a lover of truth. Translated into English by a Lady, and Dedicated, with Permission, to her Imperial Majesty the Czarina