THE DISCOVERY OF MUSCOVY ETC.




Contents:
Introduction
The New Navigation and Discovery of The Kingdom Of Muscovy
The Coins, Weights, and Measures, used in Russia
The Voyage of the Ambassedor
The Manners, Usages, and Ceremonies of the Russians
The Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan
King Alfred's Orosius
The Geography of Europe.
Elegiac verses by William Wordsworth



INTRODUCTION



The first relations between England and Russia were established in
Queen Elizabeth's reign, in the manner here set forth, by the
expedition undertaken by Sir Hugh Willoughby and completed by
Richard Chanceler or Chancellor, captain of the Edward Bonaventure.
Chanceler went on after Willoughby and the crew of his ship, The
Admiral, with the crew of another vessel in the expedition, had been
parted from Chanceler in a storm in the North Sea, and Willoughby's
men were all frozen to death. A few men belonging to the other ship