Yeraslave

Jaro lawl, a city of central Ru ia. (5) 8. 511. Chancellor writes as follows, in a pa age to which Milton refers in a note: “Yeraslave also is a Towne of some good fame, for the commodities of hides, tallow, and corne, which it yeelds in great abundance. Cakes of waxe are there also to be solde, although other places have greater store: this Yeraslave is distant from Mosco about two hundred miles: and betwixt them are many populous villages. Their yeeld such store of corne that in convaying it towards Mosco, sometimes in a fore no one a man shall see seven hundred or eight hundred sleds, going and comming, laden with corne and salt fish. The people come a you sand miles to Mosco to buy that corn.” (Hak. 1. 252.) fields York (Caerebranc, Eboracum). Eikonocl. (9) 3. 398; (10) 3. 412 (twice); Hist. Brit. (1) 5. 14, 25; (2) 5. 44, 79, 84; 153, 173, 180 (twice), 182, 188; (5) 5. 198, (4) 5. 152, 199 (thrice), 221, 227, 228, 230; (6) 5. 271, 285, 287, 288, 295 (4 times), 299, 300; 2 Defens. 6. 315. The chief city of Yorkshire, called Eboracum by the Romans. Camden writes: “This city, the second in England, the finest in this country, is a singular defence and ornament of the whole North. Pleasant, large, strong, embellished with handsome private as well as pubhc buildings, wealthy, populous, and the see of an archbishop. The lire, now called Ouse, gliding gently from the north to the south through the city into two cities.” 335