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The Imperiia Project: a spatial history of the Russian Empire

Well worth a read!

You can find this report on page 156 of The voyages and travels of the Ambassadors from the Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy, and the King of Persia begun in the year M.DC.XXXIII. and finish'd in M.DC.XXXIX. containing a compleat history of Muscovy, Tartary, Persia, and other adjacent countries with several publick transactions reaching neer the present times in seven books il. with diverse accurate mapps and figures by Adam Olearius rendered into English by John Davies (London, 1662). You won't regret it.

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He is known for far more important things, but... ...if you are looking for a way to remember Adam Olearius, just think of him as the man who wrote of "melons of extraordinary bigness."

Why would you do such a thing?

Excellent question.

Olearius went ashore at Kazan for provisions in August 1636 and had this to say:
We could meet with nothing but Fruits, among others, particularly Melons, full as big as our Pompions, and Salt-fish, but such as stunk so that we were forc'd to stop our noses, to shun the infection.
The extraordinary bigness of the melons was deemed remarkable enough that it merited mention in the Table of Contents of the 1662 edition, wedged between a summary of Ivan IV's conquest of Kazan and notes on the course of the Volga below the once-great city.