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7 day 17 hours and a half shortest eight and a half. Religion Lutherism.

Of NORWAY.

The air is very cold and the soil so barren, that it is but thinly inhabited. Its commodities are stock fish, which the poor people dry, and use in instead of bread, rich furs, train oil, pitch, masts cables, deal boards, which they exchange for corn, and other necessaries of life. The longest day two months the shortest six hours and a half. They are a hardy people, but very mean and ignorant; professing Lutheranism, but know little of it.

Of MUSCOVY, or RUSSIA.

The dominions of Muscovy or Russia are of very great extent, the people hardy and vigorous and since the Czar Peter very much polished. The air very cold during three quarters of the year and the short summer is very hot. The sun does not set in the northern parts of this country for near two months and the shortest day is nine hours and a half. The chief commodities are wax, honey, tallow, oil caviere flax, hemp, iron, skins, &c. The government absolute, and the people so