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of the battle, giving his orders, on account 

 of which it was transported to St. Peters- 

 burg. It is now not one half of its former 

 weight owing to cutting into a form to 

 ornament the Square. 



Cronstadt, the mole or port our ship lay 

 in, is about thirty miles from St. Peters- 

 burg. Our custom is to enter at Cronstadt, 

 deliver our cargo on a lighter and send it 

 to St. Petersburg, the lighter returning from 

 there with our return cargo. We cross on a 

 ferry boat to Baenboom or take a drosky, 

 a small four-wheeled carriage with a kind of 

 seat like a cushion on which we sit astride. 

 They are drawn by two or three horses 

 abreast, and they travel at a rate of ten or 

 twelve miles an hour, and kicking up such 

 a dust you can hardly see before you. I 

 have been completely covered with it to 

 the spoiling of clothes. In regard to Co- 

 penhagen, Denmark, I can say but little of 

 it as a place of any great beauty. There 

 are some large and spacious buildings and 

 it has had a great commerce, but it is now 



