1686] DIAEY OF PATRICK GORDON. 157 Vloizka,* where wee dined, and gott fresh horses

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

1686] DIAEY OF PATRICK GORDON. 157

Vloizka,* where wee dined, and gott fresh horses, paying for each . .
Wee came ten vcrst further, and by a litle monastery, dedicated to St.
Nicolaus, wee crossed the river Twcrctsf the first tyme, through woods the
most part of the way, being bridged to the village Cholocliolka, through
which runneth a brooke of the same name ; and haveing the river Twerets
on our left hand, wee went foure verst further, and baited in the fields, and
six verst further, wee crossed the Twerets againe, by the village Widropusk
which belongeth to the Ivcrsky Monastery. Here is the border of the
Dukedome of Novogrodt, and beginneth the Novo Torsky district. Wee
travelled all night.

About seven aclock, wee came to Torshok, where wee dined. This is a August :
very pleasant countrey. Wee had excellent way, seventeen verst, to the
river Logovisha, which wee crossed at the village Marina; and thirteen
verst further, wee crossed the river Twerets the third tyme, at the village
Medna, where wee supped. Here endeth the Novo Torsky district, and
beginneth the Dukedome of Twere. Wee tooke jorney about midnight, and
befor day, fed our horses by a monastery, fyve verst short of Twere, and
twenty fyve from Medna.

About sunriseing, wee came to the ferry, and crossing the river Volga, August '.
wee breakfast in the Yempsky Slobod, where getting fresh horses, and with
good weather, came and baited by the village Gorodisha, which is from
Twere . . . verst. Here hath been a fort for preserving the passages
on the river Volga, which wee had here all along on our left hand.
Fyfteen verst further, wee crossed on a float the river Moskna, by a village
of the same name, and fyfteen vcrst further, to the village Zavidova, and
about fyve verst further, fed the horses in the fields.

By day hght, wee set forward by the village Spass, and dined by the August 3
river Zamoga, and then to Klin, which is ninety of the old verst from
Mosko, and of the new but thirty nine. Here wee crossed the river Sustra ;
and through very badd way, and crossing the same river againe, three vcrst
further, wee came to Moshna, a village, twelve verst, and so on to Pcshky,
where wee rested till midnight.

Being good weather, and indifferent way, wee set forward, and dined August 3
fyve verst short of Czlrkishowa ; and so on came to the Stranger Sloboda,j:
about fyve a clock afternoone.

* [NVyschnij Wolotschok.] f [Twerza.] { [Of Moscow.]