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Yet I am not half done, for I also went twenty miles 

 in one direction to see the Rrtyal Palace of Tzarskoi Selo, 

 built by Peter the Great, with its amber room, its museum 

 full of every species of arms from every nation that ever 

 fought, where the Duke of Wellington's sword and Kos- 



THE MAMMOTH. 



ciusko's sleep together as harmless as two primroses ; 

 and in the grounds of which is the summer-house where 

 that old randy, Catherine, used to entertain company 

 round a table so constructed that every plate descended 

 by machinery to the kitchen, was filled and returned, 



