Travels Through Part of the Russian Empire And the Country of Poland Along the
Travels Through Part of the Russian Empire And the Country of Poland Along the
Robert Johnston
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Tweer was once the resident city of the Grand Dukes of Russia, but is now the capital of the government of the same name. It is advantageously situated, in respect to its commu- nication with other places. By means of the Volga it carries on an inland trade with the Caspian Sea and the intermediate countries, also by the junction of the rivers flowing through the extensive country of Siberia. The produce of those dis- tant and almost unknown regions are brought to the capital. At Tweer we were ...regaled with sterlets, a delicious fish caught in the Volga, They are preserved in wooden troughs, and prove a necessary part of food to the inhabitants, during ^;heir religious fasts. The 230 TRAVELS IN RUSSIA, POLAND, &c. The Volga is one of the largest rivers in Europe, and carries on a commercial communication through a greater extent of country, than any other river. It rises from two small lakes, on the boundary line between the governments of Novogorod and Tweer, in latitude fifty-seven north, and longitude thirty- four east, and, after traversing, in an irregu- lar direction, to the forty-ninth degree of east longitude, it takes a southerly course, and falls into the Caspian Sea at Astracan, in latitude forty-six north, including a space of nearly one thousand nine hundred English miles.
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