2" Thé fécond divifion is called Khitaigorod, a term con- CI^AP‘
featured by fome'etymologifts to imply the Chinefe town.'—
Voltaire, in his Hiftory of Peter the Great, peremptorily fup-
ports- this opinion';- when he calls Khitaigorod “ La partiè
« appellee lk ville Chinoife, où les raretés de la chine s’etal-
« laient*.” But it may be remarked, that this divifion of
Mofcow bore its prefent appellation long before any connexion
was opened between the Ruffians and Chinefe ; and
the beft'hiftorians of this country, without pretending to af-
certain its original lignification, fuppofe the word Cathay or
Khitaito have been introduced by the Tartars when they
had poffeffion of Mofcow * : in proof o f this conjeXure,-it is
alledged; that there is a town in the Ukraine’ called Khitaigorod,
and another of the fame name in Podofia; both which
countries, though entirely unknown to the Chinefe, have
been eitherover-run or inhabited by Tartars.
The Khitaigorod is inclofed on one fidè by-that wall of
the Kremlin which runs from the Moikva to the Neglina;
and on the other fide by a brick wall of inferior height. It
is much-larger than the Kremlin, and contains the univerfity,.
the printing-houfe, and many other public buildings, and all
the tradefmens’ ffiops; The edifices- are moftly ftuccoed or
white-waffied ; and it has the only ftreet in Mofcow in which-
the houfes ftand clofe to one another without any intervalsbetween
them.
3. The Bielgorod, or White Town, which runs quite
round the two preceding divifions, is fuppofed to derive its
name from a white wall with - which it was formerly en**
dofed, and of which fome remains are ftill to be feen.
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