. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 1705 1736 1865 _^_^ 2 Miles. villas stretching along the side valleys of the Neva. It spreads out like a fun along the branches of the delta, embracing six large and numerous small islands, limited southwards by the Fontanka Canal, while on the mainland the outlying districts are continually expanding north and south. The islet where the founder sank its first piles still bears officially the name of the Petersburg quarter, and here stand the citadel and State prison of " SS. Peter and Paul," with the church in which the Czars are buried. But the
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 1705 1736 1865 _^_^ 2 Miles. villas stretching along the side valleys of the Neva. It spreads out like a fun along the branches of the delta, embracing six large and numerous small islands, limited southwards by the Fontanka Canal, while on the mainland the outlying districts are continually expanding north and south. The islet where the founder sank its first piles still bears officially the name of the Petersburg quarter, and here stand the citadel and State prison of " SS. Peter and Paul," with the church in which the Czars are buried. But the true centre now lies south of that island on the left bank of the Neva, which is crowded with public buildings,
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