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( 45 ) was still a couple of miles in the clouds when it broke, and with such violence I fell to the ground that I found myself stunned, and in a hole nine fathoms under grass, when I recovered, hardly knowing how to get out again. There was no other way than to go home for a spade and to dig me out by slopes, which I fortunately accomplished, before I had been so much as missed by the steward.

Peace was soon after concluded with the Turks, and it was favourable to Russia in spite of French politics. I recovered my liberty, and left St. Petersburgh at the time of

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