Elisabeth : or, The exiles of Siberia : a tale, founded upon facts . en and kitchen utensils were kept, slept theTartarian peasant, their only attendant. Their days were spent in superintending theirdomestic concerns ; in making difTerent articlesof clothing out of the skins of the reindeer, whiclithey dyed with a preparation from the bark ofthe birch, or lined with thick furs. But whenSunday arrived, Phedora secretly lamented thatshe was deprived from attending divine service,and spent great part of the day in prayer. Pros-trate before the God of all consolation, she in-voked him in behalf of
Elisabeth : or, The exiles of Siberia : a tale, founded upon facts . en and kitchen utensils were kept, slept theTartarian peasant, their only attendant. Their days were spent in superintending theirdomestic concerns ; in making difTerent articlesof clothing out of the skins of the reindeer, whiclithey dyed with a preparation from the bark ofthe birch, or lined with thick furs. But whenSunday arrived, Phedora secretly lamented thatshe was deprived from attending divine service,and spent great part of the day in prayer. Pros-trate before the God of all consolation, she in-voked him in behalf of the objects of her tender-ness; and if her piety daily increased, one of theprincipal causes was, that her ideas and her ex-pressions became more eloquent, and betteradapted to bestow tbat consolation which herhusband so much required, in proportion as hersoul became elevated by devotion. The young Elizabeth, who knew no otiicrcountry than the desolate one which she had in-habited from the age of four years, discoveredbeauties which nature bestows even upon these. mUWtJ Bï- RICHAFO) BY W FINBEN ; BY JOHN SHAWB . PICCADILIY: JLrNF. ELIZABETH. 17 inhospitable climes ; and, innocence finding plea-sure everj^where, she amused herself with climb-ing the rocks which bordered the lake, in searchof the eggs of hawks and white vultures, thatbuild their nests there during summer. Some-times she caught wood pigeons to fill a littleaviary, and at others angled for carassins%which move in shoals, whose purple shells, lyingagainst one another, appear through the waterlike a sheet of fire covered with liquid silver. Itnever occurred to the liappy days of her child-hood that there could be a lot more fortunatethan her own. Her health was established bythe keen air she breathed; and exercise, in herlight figure, united agility and strength. While hercountenance, beaming with innocence and peace,each day seemed to disclose some new , far rem
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