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IN the two former works of a similar nature to the present,—the
COSTUME OF TURKEY, and the COSTUME OF CHINA,—the utiUty and
advantage of such publications have been sufficiently dilated upon;
and the approbation with which they have been honoured has evinced,
that the opinion, the Publisher had formed of their value, -w as not illfounded.
This present work possesses all the advantages, which the
former ones embraced, and has the further merit of rather a more
systematic arrangement.
The Russian empire is of an extent unknown to other modern
nations, and hardly equalled by that of the Romans in the summit of
their power. It embraces within its limits, nations the most various,
with countries and climates the most opposite. Its extent from north
to sovith is fifty degrees of latitude, if we reckon to the north pole,
while its length from west to cast is more than one hundred and
seventy degrees of longitude. It touches the Frozen Ocean of the
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