Shropshire

Hist. Brit. (2) 5. 53; (4) 5. 156; (6) 5. 247, 257. Otherwise known as Salop, a county of England on the Welsh border. Siber. Moscovia (2) 8. 483. Formerly a city of Siberia on the Irtish, a tributary of the Ob, about ten miles above Tobolsk. Its site has now been washed away by the river. Siberia. 8. Moscovia (1) 8. 473; (2) 8. 482, 484; (4) 8. 494; (5) 518. In Milton’s time the name was applied to the upper basin of We read in Purchas: “It was further ordayned by the Moscovites that there should be places chosen by the River Oby, and in the fields adjoyning unto it, fortified by the naturall the Ob. situation for the building of Castles thereon, and furnishing them with Garrisons, and that there should be sent thither a chief Govern our, principally for further discovering the Countrey, and bringing it under subjection. did likewise take effect. These things so ordayned, And first of all there were builded certaine Castles enclosed with certaine strong beames, cut out Woods thereby, and fastened one in another in double of the filled between with earth, and fortified with Garrisons; and so great a multitude of men is duely sent thither, that in some places there are Cities a embled, consisting of Poles, For unto Tartars, Ru es, and other nations mingled together. rewes, these parts are sent all that are banished, Murtherers, Traitors, The eves, and the scum me of such as deserve death: some of which are for a time kept in prison, other enforced to continue there for certaine yeeres, every one according to the rate of his offence.... The whole country is called Siberia.” {Pilgrimes 3. 524.) 282