Chapter XXVI: Appendix: (a.) (3)

[311] Here Suvórof is a little in his favourite character of the buffoon. He generally closed his harangues by endeavouring to excite laughter among his troops; and this mode of forming a climax is a peculiar characteristic of the conversation of the Russian boors. In this manner:—“And not only of the boors, but of the gentry; and not only of the gentry, but the nobles; and not only of the nobles, but the emperors.”

[312] A slight exaggeration of Suvórof’s.

[313] From Hagemeister’s Report on the Commerce of New Russia. London, 1836, p. 120.

[314] Trade and Navigation of the Crimea for 1852, from the ‘Journal de St. Pétersbourg.’