Volume 1

Travels through the southern provinces of the Russian Empire, in the years 1793 and 1794 / Translated from the German [by F.W. Blagdon] of P.S. Pallas.

  • Peter Simon Pallas
Date:
1812
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Credit: Travels through the southern provinces of the Russian Empire, in the years 1793 and 1794 / Translated from the German [by F.W. Blagdon] of P.S. Pallas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    concife Purvey of the Crimea in the French language, yet this pamphlet by no means renders a more detailed account of it fuperfluous; from which, at length, the natural condi- tion, the advantages of foil and fituation, as well as the hif- tory, of that fmall, but ever memorable, peninfula may be fufficiently elucidated. Many new fpecies of plants and infects have been difcovered during this long journey; but, as the fyftematic defcription and reprefentation of thefe objects are more immediately connected with the completion of the Author's botanical and zoological works, they have in thefe Travels only been inci- dentally mentioned. He is, at prefent, alternately employed in arranging thofe fubje£ts, as far as his valetudinary Rate will permit; and, if his life fhould be fpared for a few years, he hopes thus to bid his laft farewell to the literary world, which, he is fenfible, has bellowed on him a greater fhare of approbation than he ever flattered himfelf to deferve: “ But the time of my departure is approaching Nigh is the hurricane that will fcatter my leaves! To-morrow, perhaps, the wanderer will appear— His eye will fearch for me round every field, And will—and will not find me.”—Ossian. - Cujus undetium trepidavit atas Claudere lußrum HoRAT. Epod. ii. 4.
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