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other two: it owes its birth to a cause to which
so many others have owed their depopulation;
meaning the Plague. The Russians in experience if
the p treaty which put them in possession of that
part of Little Tartary which lies between the
Bog and the Dnieper, established at the jun on their side
of this central spot, a post for the observance
of the quarantine. Through this place pass all
letters between Petersburgh and Constantinople:
at this place the Russian Courier who sets out once
a month fortnight from Constantinople, stops, at the
Quarantine house: he there leaves his bag, which
after having been fumigated and so forth, is
forwarded by another courier through the
Russian Empire, and returns himself to the
capital from whence he came.
At this same Bohopol I arrived yesterday
evening (Sunday Jan: 15): after dusk: in anxious expectation
of answers to 2 out of 3 letters: I sent
to Sam, by many successive couriers, from
Constantinople. A thaw which just now as
my ill stars would have it, has destroy'd
the snow-roads all around, and
the ice of the Sinjuka render'd a passage
across that river either for a myself, or for
a Messenger, difficult: the police of this town
render'd it impracticable. This morning I
found means to send a Messenger with a
letter to Major Poulivitch the Russian
Port-master enclosing two letters of introduction
from so many different persons in Constantinople
and Bucharest: the messenger brought
me - not a letter from Sam which I much
expected, but a letter from you which assuredly
I did not expect. Disappointed of necessaries
I have got a luxury to console me. I had
proposed to him in my first, and more particularly
in my second, to send somebody to
Olviopol to meet me: now have I got between
7 & 800 miles to travel alone, in a wild country,
of the language of which I know not a
single syllable. Under these circumstances it
would be cruelty to you to send off these letters
before I reach Crichoff if ever I should reach it.
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Correspondence |
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Samuel Bentham |
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