Revel

Moscovia (1) 8. 476. A seaport of Ru ia, on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland. It has been an important commercial city since 1238, when merchants of the Hanseatic League settled there. The English hoped to divert trade from Revel to their own establishments on the White Sea. (Hak. 1. 300.) Rezan. Moscovia (1) 8. 475. Riazan, a city of Ru ia on the River Oka, a tributary of the Volga. Jehkinson writes, in describing his journey by water from Moscow to A str a can: “We came unto the place where old Rezan was situate, being now most of it ruined and overgrowne.” (Pilgrimes 3. 231.) Rhee (Reana). Eikonocl. (9) 3. 400; 7 Prolus. 7. 455. An island opposite La Rochelle, in the Bay of Biscay, to which in 1627 the English, commanded by the Duke of Bucking ham, made an unsucce ful expedition. 257