about eight hundred to the Frozen Sea north.

We advanced from the river Arguna by easy and moderate journeys,

and were very visibly obliged to the care the Czar has taken to

have cities and towns built in as many places as it is possible to

place them, where his soldiers keep garrison, something like the

stationary soldiers placed by the Romans in the remotest countries

of their empire; some of which I had read of were placed in

Britain, for the security of commerce, and for the lodging of