‘The perillous and most unhappy voyages of John Struys, through Italy, Greece, Lifeland, Moscovia, Tartary, Media, Persia, East-India, Japan, and other places in Europe, Africa and Asia. Containing, I. Most accurate remarks and observations of the distinct qualities, religion, politie, customs, laws and properties of the inhabitants: II. A due description of the several cities, towns, forts and places of trust, as to their site and strength, fortifications by nature, or art, &c. with other things worthy of note: and III. An exact memorial of the most disastrous calamities which befell the author in those parts (viz) by ship-wrack, robberies, slavery, hunger, tortures, with other incommodities and hardships’ [‎123] (172/470)

Cha p . II. The Voyages of 123
daily frequented by Swedes , Vanes, Hamburgers and Lubeckers who 0CtoB '
come up the River Hervx , with their fmall Shipping. The chief l668 '
Commodities they deal in, are Wheat, Ry , Lin-and Rapefeed 3
Furrs, Hemp and Flax. TheCountreyis bleffed with a good Soil,
and produces fufficiently enough of what is requifite to human fufte-
nance, which is here very cheap. This is reckoned the beft place in
.all Mofcovia, for River-fiih j efpecially Pikes and Perch, Salmon they
have in great abundance, asalfo Carp, Bream, and Sturgeon, with
other kinds not commonly found in the
Noyogorod (which is as much as to fay, Tieyv-toivn, or being
compounded of the Latm word Novus , and the fubftantive in
the Mofcoyim Tongue, a City} is at this prefent ftrengthned only with
a Wall of Timber, but well provided with Ammunition, and Brafs
Ordnance. On the one fideisaftrongCaftlewith a high ftone-wall,
which as then was the Refiding place of the Primate or Arch-bifhop of
the Weft-Province, and fomc other Temporal Lords. The greateft
Decorum and Ornament of this City is the Pomp and ftatelmefs of
the Churches and fome Public Edifices, as at but the Houfes
and Private Dwellings of the Inhabitants without any Order or
neatnefs of Structure. Between the CaiHe and the Town is a long
wooden Bridge where the beforenamcd , a grea't
Tyrant , threw in fome Thoufands of the Inhabitants. When you
enter the Town , by that way you come within view of a famous
Cloyfter, dedicate to Saint Anthony; Tvhtch Saint
pcrfw-ideyou cat."it driving on from Rome , T ybcr ^
^Egean Sea, /^Proponds 3 /^Negropont, the *MareCafpium, * ..,
fo up the Wolga to Novogorod upon a (JwHJione isaLtke
panyofFishers^ith ivhom he coyenantedfor a certainfome of
fir ft thing they took should be his. The Fishers dreT» the
Chefl, ^htch -ft as full ofMoney , be fides aGhoftly , and 'V
With the money hebuilt therea'Chappd^here , and
tell us J his Body is yet to befeen,fresh and undecay d , by ivhich many miracles
have been done , hut none canfee htm , or them bmfuchas olvn
Faith. And fo much of a floating Mil-ftone.
In the year 161 r this City was befieged and taken in by
the Swedish General, and in the year 1613 redelivered to the of rod ' a v*
Mefcoyyw^on Articles of Peace. swde^
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