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TO THE NORTHERN PARTS OF RUSSIA AND SIBERIA. 43
himfelf of wax and fables, which with good forefight may be procured to their hands :
as for other commodities there are little or none in Mofcovia, befides thofe above re-
hearfed : if there be other it is brought thither by the Turks, who will be dainty to
buy our clothes confidering the charges of carriage over land.
Our merchants may do well to provide for the Ruffes fuch wares as the Dutch nation
doth ferve them of, as Flanders and Holland cloths, which I believe, they fhall ferve
better and with lefs charge than thev of Rye, or Dorpte, or Revel: for it is no fmall
adventure to bring their clothes out of Flanders to either of thefe places, and their
charge not little to carry them overland to Novogrode, which is from Rye nine hun.
dred Ruffian miles.
This Novogrode is a place well furnifhed with flax, wax, hides, tallow, and many
other things: the beft flax in Ruffia, is brought thither, and there fold by the hundred
bundles, which is done alfo at Vologca, and they that bring the flax to Novogrode,
dwell as near Vologda, as Novogrode, and when they hear of the utterance which they
may have with our nation, they will as willingly come to them as go to other.
They have in Ruffia two forts of flax, the one is called great flax, and the other
fmall: that which they call great flax is better by four rubbles in one hundred bundles
than the fmall: it is much longer than the other, and cleaner without wood: and
whereas of the {mall flax there go twenty-feven or twenty-eight bundles to a fhippond,
there goeth not of the greater fort above twenty-two or twenty-four at the moft.
There are many other trifles in Ruffia, as foap, mats, &c. but I think there will be no.,
great account made of them,
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