Russia on the Black Sea and Sea of Azof: Being a Narrative of Travels in the Crimea and Bordering Provinces; with Notices of the Naval, Military, and Commercial Resources of Those Countries |
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... kind , considerate conduct , and to persuade them that you have no projects for your own aggrandizement , but wish , by confirming their independence and adding to their strength , to render them a strong bulwark against Russian ...
... kind , considerate conduct , and to persuade them that you have no projects for your own aggrandizement , but wish , by confirming their independence and adding to their strength , to render them a strong bulwark against Russian ...
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... kind of с d Its old Russian name was Belaio Veja , and it was called Kiz Kerman , or the Girl's Castle , by the Tatars ( Vsevo- lovski , Dict . Hist . Géog . de la Russie ) . The following is the account Herodotus gives of this river ...
... kind of с d Its old Russian name was Belaio Veja , and it was called Kiz Kerman , or the Girl's Castle , by the Tatars ( Vsevo- lovski , Dict . Hist . Géog . de la Russie ) . The following is the account Herodotus gives of this river ...
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... kind of warfare the kings . of Poland can match the infantry of all the monarchs of the world . They fortify their camp with waggons ranged in several rows ; this they call tabor , ' and make them their last refuge from an overbearing ...
... kind of warfare the kings . of Poland can match the infantry of all the monarchs of the world . They fortify their camp with waggons ranged in several rows ; this they call tabor , ' and make them their last refuge from an overbearing ...
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... kind of military colonists to check their depredations . The Tatar sway was also extended along all the Steppes as far as the Don Cossacks , and then again beyond them to Circassia , and the power of the khans of Crimea long survived ...
... kind of military colonists to check their depredations . The Tatar sway was also extended along all the Steppes as far as the Don Cossacks , and then again beyond them to Circassia , and the power of the khans of Crimea long survived ...
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... kind of hay , it offers to the cattle during nine months a very substantial food , and these pastures are in consequence particularly favourable to sheep . When , on the contrary , the rains of spring are very abundant , the vegetation ...
... kind of hay , it offers to the cattle during nine months a very substantial food , and these pastures are in consequence particularly favourable to sheep . When , on the contrary , the rains of spring are very abundant , the vegetation ...
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