1725.

This Commander created them!
Blufh, O Art!

At a Hero, who ow'd Thee nothing.
Exult, O Nature!

For Thine was this Prodigy.

End of the Fifth Book.

APPEN

APPENDIX.

The following is the Account which
I promised in the first Volume of
this Work, of Mr. IS BRANT'S
Journey from Moscow to China.

China.

E left Mofcow in the Month of 1692. March, on a Sledge, but had got but a very little Way on his Jour- Way by ney, before it rained fo hard, that Land from he was exposed to very great Dan- Moscow to ger, by the Abundance of Waters he met with in his Road to Wologda, where he stay'd fome Days, to recover the Fatigue he had gone through, and wait for fair Weather. Froft coming on again, the Ways were paffable, and he purfued his Journey toward Suchina, and from thence to the City of the Great Uftiga, where the Suchina and the Irga uniting their Streams form the famous River of Dwina, which Name means a double Ri

ver.

The

He arrived next in the Country of the Syre- The Syrenes. nes, whofe Inhabitants fpeak a Language very

1692.

Kaigorod.

different from the Ruffian, tho' fomewhat like that which is spoke in Livonia, as he was informed by fome of his Train, who were of that Country. They are of the Greek Church, and fubject to his Czarian Majefty, to whom they pay the cuftomary Duties, but have neither Governor nor Waivode. They chufe their own Judges, and if any Queftion arifes that they are unable to decide, they go to Moscow, where they have recourfe to the Precause of Pofolske, or Office for foreign Affairs. They differ very little from the Ruffians in Stature, and wear the fame Drefs that was in Ufe among them, 'till alter'd by the Orders of PETER I. They are very ignorant, and have no Tradition among them concerning their own Hiftory. They fubfift chiefly by Agriculture, except a Part of them, upon the Banks of the River Zizol, who have fome grey Furs to traffick with. They live very little in Towns, but for the most part, in little Villages and Hamlets, fcattered up and down in the Woods. The Country is about feventy long German Leagues in Length, and extends quite to Kaigorod, butting upon a great Foreft, where M. Isbrant's was a fecond Time taken with a violent Thaw, and heavy Rain, that in one Night's Time, caufed a Flood of Waters all round the Wood, which retarded him for four Days without being able to go backwards or forwards. At length, with great Difficulty, he got away, by throwing Bridges over the Rivers, and other Helps; and came to Kaigorod, a pretty confiderable Fortrefs upon the Kama, on the 16th of April.

He