A journey into Siberia, made by order of the King of France / By M. l'abbé Chappe d'Auteroche. Containing an account of the manners and customs of the Russians, with the natural history, and geographical description of their country. Translated from the French.

  • Chappe d'Auteroche, abbé, 1728-1769.
Date:
1770
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Credit: A journey into Siberia, made by order of the King of France / By M. l'abbé Chappe d'Auteroche. Containing an account of the manners and customs of the Russians, with the natural history, and geographical description of their country. Translated from the French. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE OF THE TRANSLATOR. THE difpofition of this work being confiderably changed in the tranflation ; the tranflator thinks it incumbent upon him to give an account of this alteration, and to offer fome reafons for having taken fuch liberty with the original. His firft intention having been to abridge the work as much as poffible, without paffing over any material circumffance, he has reduced two volumes into one. In doing this, he has brought together all fuch parts as are more particularly con¬ nected with each other by the matter they treat of, and which are frequently feparated in the original. Thus, immediately after the journey from France to Tobolfky, is introduced the return from thence, which is at the end of the firft volume of the original. The geographical account of Ruffia is then given, together with the level of the road from Paris to To- bohky, as it is found in the beginning of the fécond volume of the original. But, it is proper to obferve, that in the laff mentioned part, the procédés, from which the conclufions have been obtained, are omitted; and the conclufions only produced, fo far as they were neceffary to communicate a A 2 complete