. . of making aReform in his military Affairs. We lay at Kolberon, over-againft Riga,which is looked upon as a Suburb to this laft mentioned City, althoughdivided from it by the Duna. The King of Toland, Frederick Augus-tus, called the Fort here Fredericksburg, and that of Dunamuden, abouttwelve Wrejls* lower, at the Mouth of the fame River, Augujiburg,when he had made himfelf Mailer of them in the Year 1700. We layat Kolberon, not only becaufe the Waggon puts up there, but becaufewe arrived too late to be admitted into the City that
. . of making aReform in his military Affairs. We lay at Kolberon, over-againft Riga,which is looked upon as a Suburb to this laft mentioned City, althoughdivided from it by the Duna. The King of Toland, Frederick Augus-tus, called the Fort here Fredericksburg, and that of Dunamuden, abouttwelve Wrejls* lower, at the Mouth of the fame River, Augujiburg,when he had made himfelf Mailer of them in the Year 1700. We layat Kolberon, not only becaufe the Waggon puts up there, but becaufewe arrived too late to be admitted into the City that Night -, but wentinto it early the next Morning, over a floating Bridge above 1000 Paceslong : Of the City I fhall fpeak in the following Chapter. • I fhall reckon by Wrejls, now I am entered into the Provinces conquered by RuJJia, as I didbefore by Miles. I ebferved in a Note before, at my leaving Hamburgh, that a German Mile makesabove five Englijh Miles, and is about two French Leagues; and in another Note after, that fevenWrejls make a German Mile. The. ? The TRAVELS of ^4. de la M O T RAT E. CHAP. III. A yOURNETfrom Riga to the Lake Ladoga, andfrom thence to Petcrsbourg; , Hiftorical and Tolitical Ob [er vat ions on the Country,Towns, and principal Tran factions, as 71/ell in theLife of the Emperour, Peter the Fir ft, as of theEmprefs, Catherine ; and on the Rife and Fall ofAlexander Menzikoff, &c. HAVE already publilhed, in my fecond Chapter,Part of what I promile in this ; but, as that is almoftas long as the firft, which feemed to be too long, Ifhall, in this Place, begin the third. We have very little Account of Livonia before theBirth of Jefns Chrifl, but from the Annals of Swedenand Denmark ; and thole inform us only of the Progrefs and Succefs oftheir own Arms, and hardly mention any Thing of the Government andCondition of the Towns in that Country 5 nay, by their Silence, theyhave left us entirely in the Dark for ibme Ages, even after the Begin-
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