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See Plesco. Volga (Edel, Tolga). Moscovia (1) 8. 471, 474, 475 (thrice), 476. (See also A str a can, Nagay.) A river of Ru ia, flowing into the Caspian Sea. refers in a note to the following pa age: Milton “At Yeraslave we pa ed the river of Volga, more than a mile over. This river taketh his beginning at Beal Ozera, and descend eth into Mare Caspium, portable thorow of very great ve els with flat bottomes, which (Hak. 1. 377.)”To (Hak. 1. 364.) Anthony Jenkinson gives a narrative, from which Milton drew He thus largely, of his voyage down the Volga to the Caspian. describes his entrance into the Sea: “The same day departed I, with the said two Johnsons having the whole charge of the Navigation downe the sayd river Volga, being very crooked, and full of flats toward the mouth thereof. We entred into the Caspian sea the tenth day of August at the Easterly side of the farre pa e any that our countrey useth.” the Caspian sea are 2700 versts from Yeraslave.” sayd river, being twenty leagues from A str a can aforesayd, in the Volga hath latitude of fortie six degrees, twentie seven minutes. seven tie mouths or falls into the sea.” (Hak. 1. 326.) The misprint “Tolga” occurs once in the Pick ering edition. 326