. 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 lingthe marsh and paving the streets. Where tlie large buildings stand, fab-ulous amounts have been expended in making foundations, and many ofthem have cost more than the buildings that stand upon them. Thefoundations of the Church of St. Isaac are said to have cost four millionsof dollars, and twenty-five years were spent in their construction. Frank asked about the inundations mentioned by the Doctor. There have been some eight or ten of
. 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 lingthe marsh and paving the streets. Where tlie large buildings stand, fab-ulous amounts have been expended in making foundations, and many ofthem have cost more than the buildings that stand upon them. Thefoundations of the Church of St. Isaac are said to have cost four millionsof dollars, and twenty-five years were spent in their construction. Frank asked about the inundations mentioned by the Doctor. There have been some eight or ten of them, the Doctor most serious inundation of this century was in 1824, when thewater of the Neva rose thirteen feet and four inches above its ordinarylevel. Observe that line, said he, as he pointed to a mark upon a build-ing ; that is the point to which the waters rose in the inundation of 182-1. The mark was nearly four feet above the level of the sidewalk wherethey stood. Frank and Fred regarded it with astonishment, while theDoctor continued: In a single night (November 17tli) property to the value of twenty CONVENT OF SOLOVETSK. Tl. T2. THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. millions of dollars was destroyed, and it was estimated that not less thaneight thousand people lost their lives. The flood was caused bj a strongwesterly wind which combined with the tide and forced the waters in
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