Note 045 My knowledge of these annals is drawn from M. Leveque, Histoire de Russie. Nestor, the first and best of these ancient annalists, was a monk of Kiow, who died in the beginning of the xiith century; but his Chronicle was obscure, till it was published at Petersburgh, 1767, in 4to. Leveque, Hist. de Russie, tom. i. p. xvi. Coxe's Travels, vol. ii. p. 184.
Note: The late M. Schlozer has translated and added a commentary to the Annals of Nestor;" and his work is the mine from which henceforth the history of the North must be drawn. - G.]

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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 55