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PLATE XXII.
A FEMALE TARTAR OF KAZAN.
T HE females are in general more remarkable for a healthy and fresh
complexion than for beauty. They enjoy a good constitution, and
accustom themselves from their infancy to exercise and employment; and
their general character is marked by a modest, submissive, and timid behaviour.
Those, who live in the villages, employ themselves in spinning
wool, making cloth, or in spinning the hemp, which they cultivate in
considerable quantities. The dress of the married women among all
the nations, in which the custom of purchasing wives prevails, is better
iind more valuable than that of the girls, for the dress of the wives does
credit to their husbands, while that of the unmarried Women, when
they are sold, is a certain loss to their parents. The dress of these
females will be described in the next Plate, which is illustrative of the
back part of their habits.
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