. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across e palace is on the bankof the river, and was once very pretty. The Austrians have converted itinto a military barrack, after strip-ping it of all its ornaments, so thatit is now hardly worth are many fine churches inCracow, but we have only had timeto visit one of them — the cathe-dral. In the cathedral we saw thetombs of many of the men whosenames are famous in Polish his-torj. Polish kings and queens al-most by the dozen are
. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across e palace is on the bankof the river, and was once very pretty. The Austrians have converted itinto a military barrack, after strip-ping it of all its ornaments, so thatit is now hardly worth are many fine churches inCracow, but we have only had timeto visit one of them — the cathe-dral. In the cathedral we saw thetombs of many of the men whosenames are famous in Polish his-torj. Polish kings and queens al-most by the dozen are buried here,and there is a fine monument to thememory of St. Stanislaus. His re-mains are preserved in a silvercofiin, and are the object of rever-ence on the part of those who stilldream of the ultimate liberation ofPoland, and its restoration to its oldplace among the kingdoms of theworld. We drove around the princi-pal streets of Cracow, and then out to the tumulus erected to the mem-ory of the Polish patriot. Kosciusko. You remember the lines in ourschool reader, Hope for a season bade the world farewell,And freedom shrieked as Kosciusko KOSCIUSKO, 1817. We were particularly desirous to see this mound. It was made ofearth brought from all the patriotic battle-fields of Poland at an enormousexpense, which was largely borne by the people of Cracow. The monu-ment is altogether one hundred and fifty feet high, and is just inside theline of fortifications which have been erected around the city. The Aus-trians say these fortifications are intended to keep out the Russians ; but 20 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. it is jnst as likely that they are intended to keep the Poles from makingone of the insurrections for which they have shown so great an incli-nation during the past two or three centuries, As we contemplated the monument to the famous soldier of Poland,we remembered his services during our Revolutionary war. Kosciuskoentered the American army in 1776 a
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