“The next questions we ate to put to ourselves are these three:
“1. By what means can he gain these ends?
“2. How far from him, and in what place, (:an these ends he best obtained?
“3. And by what time, using all proper methods, and succeeding in them, may he obtain these ends?
“The possessions of the Czar were prodigious, vast in extent; the people all at his nod, all his downright arrant slaves, and all the wealth of the country his own at a word’s command. But then the country, though large in ground, was not quite so in produce. Every vassal had his gun, and was to be a soldier upon call; but there was never a soldier among them, nor a man that understood the calling; and though he had all their wealth, they had no commerce of consequence, and little