Travelogues; . By permissioB A DATCHI evening we find scores of carriages at rest, while theoccupants stroll up and down looking across the Bayof Finland at the slow, northern sun, reluctantly drop-ping for its brief daily dip in the cold waters of theBaltic. And even when we come alone by night, hopingto have the Strielka to ourselves, we find that we arenot alone in our appreciation of moonlight on the Gulfof 66 ST. PETERSBURG. lELAGIN ISLAND Far away the shores of conquered Finland he low on thehorizon, and beyond them lies a land that Russia covets, butwhich she dares not touch,
Travelogues; . By permissioB A DATCHI evening we find scores of carriages at rest, while theoccupants stroll up and down looking across the Bayof Finland at the slow, northern sun, reluctantly drop-ping for its brief daily dip in the cold waters of theBaltic. And even when we come alone by night, hopingto have the Strielka to ourselves, we find that we arenot alone in our appreciation of moonlight on the Gulfof 66 ST. PETERSBURG. lELAGIN ISLAND Far away the shores of conquered Finland he low on thehorizon, and beyond them lies a land that Russia covets, butwhich she dares not touch, for Sweden and Norway, sup-ported by the sympathies of the civilized world, can defy theRussian Bear. But if the Russian chariot of conquest, —like the equipage of a dignified old general, which we see atthe Strielka,—has halted in its westward progress at theBaltic shore, it has nevertheless rolled eastward for more thansix thousand triumphant miles, across two continents ; andto-day its sturdy chargers, strengthened by the race, standpanting on the shores of the Pacific, eager to plunge in andswim to fair Japan, or dash into the Chinese Empire — nay,having already coursed secretly through all Manchuria whilethe worlds attention was fixed upon the capital, Peking. Reminded by this thought that we are soon to follow inthe wake of Russian subjugation from this, the palatial capi-tal, to the crude new cities of Siberia, we set
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