. 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 DURING THE FAIR. bridges of boats. It is a regular town or city, built for the purposes oftrade. It has its governor, police force, fire brigade, and all the parapher-nalia of a city, and the Government collects by means of a tax about fiftythousand dollars for the support of the organization. Then it is a city with a busy population for two months of the year,and a deserted town for the other ten V Exactly so, was the reply; Fair-town at N
. 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 DURING THE FAIR. bridges of boats. It is a regular town or city, built for the purposes oftrade. It has its governor, police force, fire brigade, and all the parapher-nalia of a city, and the Government collects by means of a tax about fiftythousand dollars for the support of the organization. Then it is a city with a busy population for two months of the year,and a deserted town for the other ten V Exactly so, was the reply; Fair-town at Nijni in season and outof season will remind you of the difference between Coney Island or LongBranch in July and in January. THE SIGHTS OF NIJNI NOVGOROD. 281 Well drop the subject till to-morrow, said the Doctor, and withthis suggestion the conversation was suspended. On their arrival at Nijni, where they expected to remain two or threedays, the party went to the hotel as already stated, and then made a hastysurvey of the stock sights of the place. They saw the Kremlin, which isa place of considerable strength, and contains the Governors residence,. NIJNI NOVGOKOD AFTER THE FAIR. the military barracks, law-courts, telegraph station, and other public build-ings. There is a fine monument to Minin and Pojarsky, and in a churchnot far oif is the tomb of the patriotic cattle-dealer. Our friends climbed to the top of Minins Tower [Bashnia Minina),where they had a magnificent view of the surrounding country, includingthe valleys of the Yolga and Oka for a long distance, the permanent townand its Kremlin, the site of the fair, with its miles of streets, and its thou-sands of boats and barges tied to the river-bank. Frank recalled the viewfrom the hill near Hankow, at the junction of the Han and Yang-tse inChina, and pointed out many features of similarity. Fred said he wasreminded of the junction of the Ganges and Jumna at Allahabad, and anappeal to the Doctor brought out a reference
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