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OOXE’s TRAVELS IN RUSSIA.

IV.— Government of Revel , or EJlhonia.

Revel was confirmed to the Swedes at the peace of Oliva, conquered by Peter the;Great in 1710, and finally'ceded to Ruffia in 1721.—It contains five diftridts.

1. Revel on the Baltic fea. '

2. Baltic-Port, about forty verfts weft wards from Revel.

3. Habfal, or Hapfal, a maritime town.

4. Weifienftein, on the rivulet Saida, about eighty verfts from Revel.

5. Wefenberg, about one hundred verfts from Revel, at about an equal diftance

from that town and Narva .

V.— Government of Riga or Livonia , ceded to Ruffia in 1721.

It contains nine diftrifts.

1. Riga , on the Dunna, fourteen verfts from its mouth.

2. Wenden, on the river Aa.

. 3. Wolmar, on the fame river.

4. Walk, on a rivulet falling into the fouth fide of lake Wyrtz.

5. Werro, on the weft fide of Peipus.

6 . Dorpt , on the river Em, or Embak, which iffues from the lake Wyrtz, and falls

into the Peipus.

7. Fellin, on the fmall river of the fame name.

8. Perneau, on the river of that name, near the Baltic Sea .g. Arenfburgh, on the ifland Oefel.

VI.— Government of PJkof.

A republic, fubdued by Vaflili Ivanovitch, and formerly comprized in the goveriVment of Novogorod.—Contains nine diftridts.

1. Pfkof, called by foreigners Pleftof, on the river Velika, or Velikaia.

2. Petchora, on the rivulet Simfha, falling into the fouth part of the Peipus , or the

lake of Pfkof.

3. Oftrof, or Oftroffk, on an ifland of the river Velika.

4. Opotchka , on an ifland of the fame river.

5. Novorfhef, on an ifland of the fmall lake of Padzo, through which flows the

river Velikaia.

6. Velikie Luki , on the left fide of the river Lovat, falling into the lake Ilmen.

7. Toropez, on the river Toropo, falling into the Duna.

8. Kholm, on the river Lovat.

9. Porkof, on the river Schelef.

VII .—Government of Novogorod.

, A powerful republic, finally reduced by Ivan Vaflilievitch II. and united to the Ruf-flfin empire.—Contains ten diftri&s,

1. Novogorod, on the river Volkof, near the lake Ilmen.

2. Kreftetz, on the river Khlova, falling into the Mfta.

3. Staraia. Ruflfa, on the river Polifh, about fifteen verfts fouth of the Ilmen.

4. Valdai, on the weft; fide of the lake of Valdai.

5. Borovitchi, on the River Mfta.

6. Tikhvin, on the rivulet of that name, falling into the Siafs,. which difcharges

itfelf into the Ladoga , n

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