. 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 A BROKKN TARANTASSE. and out through its entrance till they danced on the blue waters of theEuxine Sea. Frank and Fred could hardly believe that the narrow basin SOi THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. once contained a hundred and fifty English and Frencli shij)s; it seemedthat there was hardly room for a third of that number. On their return journey they passed a party with a broken stopped a moment and offered any as
. 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 A BROKKN TARANTASSE. and out through its entrance till they danced on the blue waters of theEuxine Sea. Frank and Fred could hardly believe that the narrow basin SOi THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. once contained a hundred and fifty English and Frencli shij)s; it seemedthat there was hardly room for a third of that number. On their return journey they passed a party with a broken stopped a moment and offered any assistance in their power, butfinding they could be of no use they did not tarry long. When theyreached Sebastopol the sun had gone down in the west, and the stars. THE BOSPORUS. twinkled in the clear sky that domed the Crimea. The next morningthey rambled about the harbor and docks of the city, and a little pastnoon were steaming away in the direction of Odessa. A day was spent in this prosperous city, which has a population ofnearly two hundred thousand, on a spot where at the end of the last cen-tury there was only a Tartar village of a dozen houses, and a small fortressof Turkish construction. Odessa has an extensive commerce, and theships of all nations lie at its wharves. Its greatest export trade is inwheat, which goes to all parts of the Mediterranean, and also to Black Sea wheat formerly found a market in America, but all thathas been changed in recent years through the development of the wheat-growing interest in our Western States and on the Pacific Coast. Immediately on their arrival they sent their passports to receive the A DREAM OF THE FUTURE. 505 proper permission for leaving the country. Everything was arrangedin the
Size: 1908px × 1309px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorknoxthomaswallace1835, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880
