Ruffians }■ and that even in the fmalleft villages we were CHAP*
able to procure much better accommodations than we
ally met with in the largeft towns which we had hitherto
vilited in this empire. The inhabitants o f this province enjoy
confiderable privileges, and profefs a different religion :
how far thefe circumftances may render them more enlightened
than the Ruffians is a curious queilion, which cannot
be anfwered by us who continued in the country during
fo Ihort a time,
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