. 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 PLANT FROM WHICH YELLOW TKA IS MADE. MONUMENTS IN ST. PETEKSBUEG. 83 of jolted chai. Well get a small box of the best and send it home foryou to try. It was so late in the day when our friends had finished their dinnerand returned to the Square, that there was not much time left for sight-seeing. They were in front of the Winter Palace and St. Isaacs Church,but decided to leave them until another day. Freds attention was drawnto a tall colu
. 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 PLANT FROM WHICH YELLOW TKA IS MADE. MONUMENTS IN ST. PETEKSBUEG. 83 of jolted chai. Well get a small box of the best and send it home foryou to try. It was so late in the day when our friends had finished their dinnerand returned to the Square, that there was not much time left for sight-seeing. They were in front of the Winter Palace and St. Isaacs Church,but decided to leave them until another day. Freds attention was drawnto a tall column between the AVinter Palace and a crescent of lofty build-ings called the Etat-majo)% or staff headquarters, and he asked the Doctorwhat it was. That is the Alexander Column, was the reply to the question. Itis one of the largest monoliths or single shafts of modern times, and waserected in 1832 in memory of Alexander I. What a splendid column ! said Frank. I wonder how high it COLUMN IN MEMORY OF ALEXANDER I. Thereupon the youths fell to guessing at the height of the they had made their estimates—neither of them near the mark butconsiderably below it—Doctor Bronson gave them its dimensions. 84 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. The shaft, witiioiit pedestal or capital, is fourteen feet in diameterand eighty-four feet high ; it was originally one hundred and two feethigh, but was reduced tln-ough fear that its length was out of proportionto its diameter. Tlie base and pedestal are one single block of red graniteabout twenty-five feet high, and the capital is sixteen feet high. Theangel above the capital is fourteen feet tall, and the cross in tlie hands ofthe angel is seven feet above it. With the platform on which it rests,the whole structure rises one hundred and fifty-four feet from the level ofthe ground. They must have liad a hard time to make the foundations in thismarshy ground, one of the boys remarked., They drove six rows of
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