Miscellanies . Phineas Fletcher,, who was ambaflador from Queen Elizabeth to-Ruffia, gives an account ©f the fame practice continuing in fome partsof Mufcovy. In winter time,, when all is covered with fnow, fo many as die are piled up in a hovel in the fuburbs,. like billets-on a wood-K Hack j. they ape as hard with the froft as a very ftone, till the fpring-u tide come and refolve the froft, what time every man taketh his dead,u, friend, and committeth him to the ground. See a note to one ofFletchers eclogues,, p. 10, printed at Edinburgh, in 1771,, i2mo. Seealfo a poem, written at Mofcow, by
Miscellanies . Phineas Fletcher,, who was ambaflador from Queen Elizabeth to-Ruffia, gives an account ©f the fame practice continuing in fome partsof Mufcovy. In winter time,, when all is covered with fnow, fo many as die are piled up in a hovel in the fuburbs,. like billets-on a wood-K Hack j. they ape as hard with the froft as a very ftone, till the fpring-u tide come and refolve the froft, what time every man taketh his dead,u, friend, and committeth him to the ground. See a note to one ofFletchers eclogues,, p. 10, printed at Edinburgh, in 1771,, i2mo. Seealfo a poem, written at Mofcow, by G. Tuberville^ in the flrft volume ofHakluyt,, p. 386,. where the fame circumftance is dwelt upon, and the-rcafon given,, that the ground cannot be dug. Bodies,, however, are nowburied at Mofcow during the winter. u This muft have been effected by fome fort of an. ice houfe; and itappears by the Amoenitates Academics, that they have now Sweden and Lapland, which they build with mofs. !* r.
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