Voyages and Discoveries
of the North Parts of the World, by Land and
Sea, in Asia, Europe, the Polar Regions,
and in the North-West of America.
THE THIRD BOOKE.
Chap. I.
Chap. I.
The description of the Countrey of Russia, with the bredth, length, and Names of the Shires.THe Countrey of Russia was sometimes called Sarmatia. It changed the Name (as some doe suppose) for that it was parted into divers small, and yet absolute Governments, not depending, nor being subject the one to the other. For Russe in that tongue doth signifie, as much as to Part, or Divide. The Russe reporteth that foure Brethren, Trubor, Rurico, Sinees, and Variuus, divided among them the North parts of the Countrey. Likewise that the South parts were possessed by foure other, Kio, Scieko, Choranus, and their sister Libeda: each calling
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- ↑ I have in some places contracted, in others mollified the biting or more bitter stile, which the Author useth of the Russian Government; that I might doe good at home, without harme abroad.
