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CHAPTER XXIIL

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Valle The grand hotel: its accommodation-Voyage from Yalta-The

kochend city of Chersonesus-Our fellow-passengers-The war in the

Fourneta, and its results-The object of the war: its effects on our

FreRom prommissions Reflections on Russian aggression in the East-
Forpadoria A startling occurrence, and unpleasant results-Novel mode
Pepper Hingga theatre-Arrival at Odessa-First impressions-The use
From Bank lamard,

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Balony of Russia- Her policy with reference to the

Fecubic is effects upon England--Proposed canal from
Chi frulate The "Boreas"-Voyage up the Danube
To the fation Horr Sippel distinguishes himself— We
endane pot under arrest-Triumphant release-The

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THEIR EXTENSION AND PROBABLE POLITICAL INFLUENCES-THE KREMLIN-JOURNEY TO NIJNI NOVGOROD-ACCOMMODATION AT

THE FAIR.

ST PETERSBURG will amply repay the traveller for the expenditure of temper which, except in the case of a favoured few, will be the consequence of a visit to the Russian capital. Let him, therefore, cheerfully endure the delay of two hours at Cronstadt, just when the gilded domes and cupolas, which glitter at his journey's end, look most inviting-let him unhesitatingly plunge into the smoky cabin of the little

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solicitude-not that he ought over to get tired of wandering along the spacious quays or simiting the architectural beauties of St Petersong we he rattles furiously over the exceral le pavement, clinging to a frail drosky. Everything is new but the pavement and the droskies; and if locomotion by the latter be not enjoyable, it has the merit of being,

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