He succeeded in opening a friendly communication with them; and from that time there had been a regular commercial intercourse between our country and the subjects of the Czar.

A Russia Company was incorporated in London.

An English factory was built at Archangel.

That factory was indeed, even in the latter part of the seventeenth century, a rude and mean building.

The walls consisted of trees laid one upon another; and the roof was of birch bark.