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P L A T E LXXII.
A MARFJED WOMAN OF WALDAI.
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f HE dress of tlie married women of tliis district differs in some
respects from that of the immarried; and this ditFerence will be best
seen by comparing the last and the present Plates. The Pohsh women
are certainly handsomer than the Russian, and the mixture of the
former race with the present inhabitants of Waldai, is the probable
cause of the superior beauty of their females. In this, and indeed
almost every part of Russia, the natives have a verj' strong propensity
to singing ; and this not only in simple melodies, but, if we take the
authority of Coxe, the common peasants perform even in parts. The
postillions sing during the whole of the stage, the soldiers sing during
their march, and die countrymen in the midst of their most laborious
employments.
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