JOURNEY FROM St. PETERSBURG TO TZARITZIN.

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The pot-afh manufadtories of this place, which I formerlydefcribed, have feveral years ago been relinquifhed, on accountof the infufficient profits they afforded to government. Thecrown-officers expected to render them as profitable as they hadformerly been, when managed by Averki Kirilof, a veryfkilful and a&ive manufacturer of pot-afh. He firft introducedthis branch of induftry into the RufTian forefts, by engaglngexpert workmen from Poland, who underflood the burning ofpot-afh after the Hungarian manner. But the more extenfiveeftabiifhment, the greater number of peafants employed bygovernment, and the falaries of officers, increafed the price ofthe crown-manufacture fo much, that the bufinefs was aban-doned ; and the peafants have fince been employed in attendingthe imperial ftuds.

From Arfamas, the country along the river Tefha progref-fively becomes more hilly, with an excellent black foil, which ex-tends through the remaining part.of the government of Nifhne-Novgorod, and the whole province of Penfa. On the oppofitefide of the Tefha, the country is more mountainous ; the pro-jecling heights difplay, in various flips, precipitated ftrata ofreddifh clay, and are more woody than the banks of the riveralong which we travelled. Before we reached the village Net-Jhoeva, we were obliged to re-pafs the Tefha, and travel over afertile piain, varied with gentle elevations, and interfperfed withhandfome villages, tili we reached Lukoyanof, formerly a village,but now enfranchifed as a town. During the night of the 25thwe refted in this place.

On the followrng day we traverfed an open country, inter-fperfed with gently-rifing elevations, and of a moft fertile foil,

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