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From [[Brese]] to [[Warsaw]] is almost one
vast plain, partly under cultivation,
partly wooded, generally pine , but
with some mixture of other wood es=
pecially birch, with a thin poor popu=
lation. Indeed in all the vast extent
of country through which we had passed
between [[Moscow]] + [[Warsaw]] there is
very little variety of scenery -

[[Poland]] is however more com=
pletely level. As we approached
[[Warsaw]], we saw [[Cossacks]] + [[Circassians]]
stationed along the road as guards, this
being reckoned a dangerous neighbor=
hood at present, but they are {crossed out word} not
very trusty guards, as we hear that in
a robbery not long since committed, a
[[Cossack]] was found to be among the ag=
gressors -

The villages are rather better than we had
seen on the other side of the border, tho'
consisting still of poor wooden huts
which however are white washed -

Better Inns, + the females whom we
saw in them of a superior appearance,
especially we now saw again what
we had scarcely seen since leaving [[England]],
neat comfortable caps upon their heads ;
not however on the lowest orders these
were still rude enough ; but on the whole
one feels that they have come into longer
civilized + pleasanter country than that
they have left, though wasted + melancholoy

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Kareobl almost 4 years ago

Circassians are a group native to Circassia, many of whom were exiled after the Russo-Circassian War in 1864.

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