156 DIARY OF PATRICK GORDON. [1686 In the morning, I came to Novogrod, and gave immediately notice to the Governour

Passages from the diary of General Patrick Gordon of Auchleuchries : A.D. 1635-A.D. 1699"

156 DIARY OF PATRICK GORDON. [1686

In the morning, I came to Novogrod, and gave immediately notice to
the Governour-, who promised my dispatch without delay. I dined by the
translator Hutner, and, in the afternoone, visited the governour Peter
Vaslllovits Seremetuf, who gave present orders for my dispatch. And so,
getting another boat, in the evening wee set forwards up the river Msta.
And being all night on the river, wee came, about sunriseing, to the village
Erunets, being thirty verst from Novogrodt by water ; and, getting horses,
wee went from hence about eleven a clock, and comeing fyve verst further,
wee crossed the river Nissia, which runneth to the south and falleth In the
lake Ilmien. Then through woods, the most part of the way being bridged,
ten verst, to the village Krasny Stanky ; then to the village Podlltovia, and
to Sayontskowa, where hath been formerly a stage. Here wee supped, and
about midnight set forward, and by day light wee crossed the river Moshna,
haveing fed the horses ; and then liaveiug the river Chotilewa on our left
hand all the way, the way likewise haveing been most bridged, wee came
in the morning to the village Kresty;* where, dineing and getting fresh
horses, wee travelled in better way through a pleasant countrey, and, cross-
ing the river Cholowa diverse tymes, to the village Rekin, and through
woods with lakes on each sydc. Wee fedd the horses by the river Poluma,
which crossing, wee passed through the village Yosselbitza in the twilight ;
and travelling the whole night, befor day wee passed through the village
Balday,"j" where most LIttavers live. Here, in a lake, is a monastery called
Iversky, which hath large lands in this tract belonging to it.

About three verst further, wee came to Zlemna Gora, where getting
fresh horses, and paying for each . . . about sunriseing, wee set for-
ward, and came through a hilly stony countrey, to a lake called Shidorowa,
with a village of the same name ; then twelve verst further, to the village
and river Beroosa, where dineing, and crossing the river by a bridge, where
a litle chappell, wee came twenty fyve verst further, to the village OholUowa,
which hath been formerly a stage ; and ten verst further, wee fed the horses
in the fields, by the village Columna, here haveing rested the most part of
the night.

Wee travelled twenty verst, and crossed the river Slino, by the village
Brosda ; and fyve verst further, wee crossed the river Tzna, by Alsnogo

* [Krestelskoi-jam ] t [Waklay.]