Joseph Marshall (traveller)

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Joseph Marshall (years of birth and death are unknown) — British traveler of 2nd half of the 18th century. He is the author of "Travels in Holland, Flanders, Germany, of Denmark, Sweden, Lapland, Russia, Ukraine and Poland" (v. 1-3, 1772).

In 1770 he traveled the route StarodubChernigivKyivOchakov. In his work he described the natural wealth of Ukraine, stressed the high level of farming Ukrainian peasants and paid much attention to the possibility of increasing imports to England from the Ukraine hemp and flax.

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