Copy 1, Volume 1

Travels from St. Petersburg in Russia, to diverse parts of Asia / By John Bell. To which is added, a translation of the journal of Mr. de Lange.

  • John Bell
Date:
1763
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Credit: Travels from St. Petersburg in Russia, to diverse parts of Asia / By John Bell. To which is added, a translation of the journal of Mr. de Lange. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    inexhautftible. When the falt is:made, it is laid up.in granaries, till the feafon of tranf{porting it to Mosco, sT. PETERSBURG and other places: the barques, for this purpofe,-called by the russians Lodia, are ofa conftruction fomewhat uncommon. I have feen dome of them longer and broader than any firft rate man of war in ENGLAND, and not one iron-nail in the whole fabrick. All of them are flat-bottomed, having one tall tree for a matt, anda fail of light canvafs in proportion.- To manage this mighty machine, fix or eight hundred men are neceflary; the rudder is nearly as long as the barque; and fo unwieldy, that fometimes it requires forty or fifty men to fteer it. They load thefe fhips very deep, and let them float down the xama into the voLea; where, if the wind is not favourable, they are obliged to draw them, againft the ftream, to the place of their deftination. : -. ] cannot leave sot1Kamsky without mentioning the pura, and other places of that diftrict, which produce azon, equal perhaps in quality to the beft in the world.. ‘Thefe