. 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 ck (the in-vention of the Emperor Paul aboutthe beginning of the present cen-tury), denoted the sovereignty ofthe Czar; and the dress of many ofthe passengers indicated a change ofnationality. The train rolled away fromGranitsa in the direction of War-saw, which was the next point ofdestination of our friends. Thecountry through which they trav-elled was not jjarticularly interest-ing ; it was fairly though not thicklysettled, and contained
. 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 ck (the in-vention of the Emperor Paul aboutthe beginning of the present cen-tury), denoted the sovereignty ofthe Czar; and the dress of many ofthe passengers indicated a change ofnationality. The train rolled away fromGranitsa in the direction of War-saw, which was the next point ofdestination of our friends. Thecountry through which they trav-elled was not jjarticularly interest-ing ; it was fairly though not thicklysettled, and contained no importanttowns on the line of the railway,or any other object of especial in-terest. Their English acquaintancesaid there were mines of coal, iron,and zinc in the neighborhood ofZombkowitse, where the railway from Austria unites with that from eastern Germany. It is about onehundred and eighty miles from Warsaw; about forty miles farther onthere was a town with an unpronounceable name, with about ten thousandinhabitants, and a convent, which is an object of pilgrimage to many piousCatholics of Poland and Silesia. A hundred miles from Warsaw they. AFTER EXAMINATION. 48 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE EUSSL\N EMPIRE. passed Petrikau, which was the seat of the ancient tribunals of Poland;and then, if the truth must be told, they slept for the greater part ofthe way till the train stopped at the station in the Praga suburb ofWarsaw, on the opposite bank of the Vistula. As they neared the station they had a good view of Warsaw, on theheights above the river, and commanded by a fortress which occupies thecentre of the city itself. Alighting from the train, they surrendered theirpassports to an official, who said the documents would be returned to them
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