" Some iQteresting informaliou will be found in Notes relat-
ing to the Manners and Customs of Ibe Crim Tatan, by
Mary Holdemess, which are written with siiuplicity and
spirit. The author resided in the Crimea four years, and
has collected in thb little work tbe result of her observations,
from which a competent idea may be fonned of the habits
of (be people, and the slate of tbe country. Tbe volume
forms altogether a pleanng and inslruclive' pubbcalion."—
Mwthlff Magassine, October I, 1831.
From a much longer critique, it may be sufficient to
extract tbe following :

" This volume was first intended, we are told, for the
amusemeot of a friend in England, and is now given lo the
public nearly in the form in which it was originally composed.
The author frankly acknowledges her deficiencies and disqua-
lifications, but is Jievertbeless of opinion, that, as a resident
and a JttmtU, she possessed advantages for acquiring infor-
mation superior to those of a passing traveller — a sort of
modest assumption, or assuming modesty, which at.eiice
craves mercy' and provokes criticism. For our own part,
however we are disposed to wave any right to the exercise
of the latter, and that not merely from gallantry, but tie<-
cause the lady seems to confine herself ahnost entirely to
subjects of which she may be considered a competent wit-
ness, and because, notwitbstanduig such an imgdied con-
aciousnesi of superiority, At really every, where .disclose*
vihat she knows, in the most unprelendmg and unaffected
manner." — New Edinburgh Review, January, 1892.
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JOURNEY



RIGA TO THE CRIMEA.
CHAP. I.
Arrival at Bolderdd, the PortofRiga — Account
of Riga : its Exports and Imports, Anmud
Fita-y and Floating Bridge.
