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EXPLANATION of the VIGNETTES.

No. i. (p. 3.) A winter landfcape, reprefenting four very largefepulchral hillocks ("tumulij contiguous to each other in awood, near Lake Vertanetz : many fimilar elevations are fcat-tered on the heights of Valda.—pp. 4 and 5.

No. 2. (p. 88.) A detached view of a birch-foreft, the trees of whichwere partly broken by the weight of rime and other congelationson their tops; partly bent down into the fnow; fuch as wereobferved in the fpring of 1793, in the diftrift lying betweenthe rivulets Tfhardym and Kurdyum, in the government ofSaratof.—pp. 55 and 56.

No. 3. (p. 89.) A pillar of horfes* fculls and jaw-bones ere&ed bythe Kalmuks, on a fand-hill near the Akhtouba, to comme-morate a deftru&ive epidemic, that had prevailed amongthofe animals.—pp. 171 and 172.

No. 4. (p. 107.) Profiles: 1, of a Mongolian girl; 2, of a youngfemale Kalmuk; and 3, of a youth of the Nagay-tribe.—pp. 117 and 118.

No. 5. (p. 279.) Reprefentation of the manner in which pheafants aretaken by means of gins, in the fedgy thickets, on the banks ofthe Kuma and Kuban.—See the defcription, p. 316.

No. 6. (p. 338.) A fepulchral chapel of the Mahometans at GreatMadlhary; being that ftructure, which in the Xllth plate isreprefented as the moft diftant, and the architecture of which

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