eceived me very graciously, and desired me to offer
her respectful salutations to our illustrious republic, which I promised
to do.

[1] This journey appears to have been through the country on the west of
the Wolga, which they probably passed about Czariein, through the
provinces of Saratov, Woronez, and Penza, avoiding the Ilafla, to
Rezan or Riazan.--E.

[2] Rezan or Riazan, in the province of that name, on the Oka. In a
considerable, part of the track of this journey, there are now towns
and villages; but the whole of this south-eastern frontier of European
Russia, appears to have been then entirely waste, and pervaded by the
wandering Tartars. We are quite in the dark respecting the particulars
of the route from Astracan to Rezan. It was certainty on the east of
the Wolga at the first, to avoid the Tartars which occupied the
country between the Caspian and Euxine. The passage of that vast
river may have been at Czariein, at its great elbow, in lat. 48 deg. 30'N.
or about Saratov in 51 deg. 20'N. neither of which towns seem to have then
existed. From thence they would probably proceed, to avoid the larger
rivers, between where Penza and Tchenbar now stand, and by the scite
of Morbansk, towards Riazan.--E.

[3] In the original this large bridge is said to have been at Kolomna,
which is on the river Mosqua, of very inferior magnitude; and flows
into the Oka, which most probably is the Monstrus of the text.--E.

[4] In the original, the commander of this body of cavalry is said to have
been a Tartarian general--E.

[5] The word Leopolitain, may possibly be a corruption for Neopolitan, or
a native of Naples. Perhaps it may refer to Leopol, in that part of
Poland now belonging to Austria, and called Galicia.--E.

[6] Such is the expression in the original, which ought perhaps to be
reversed. Yet Contarini possibly meant to say, that the inhabitants of
Moscow laid up a sufficient stock of money from the profits of their
long winter labours, for their subsistence during summer; when, by the
absence of the court, they had little employment.--E.

[7] There are two cities named Novogrod or Novgorod in Russia, nearly at
equal distances from Moscow, one to the northwest, and the other to
the southwest; the latter of which, named Novgorod Sieverskov, is
probably meant in the text, and which ought rather to have bee