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NORTHERN RUSSIA. 



The associations which chiefly fill the mind are connected 

 with immense armies, distint conquests, Cossacks, the 

 knout, serfs, political criminals, Siberia, with a Czar 

 over all, and a background of bribery, and of political and 

 moral corruption, which darkens the whole Russian sky. 



The finest sights in St. Petersburg are the great 

 bazaars and the islands. The former are thoroughly 



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 3.HERMITAGBE 

 4. STATUE OE PET5IB* 

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 <> .COLUMN OF ALEKC 

 7.MINT. 



MAP OF ST. PETERSBURG AND THE ISLANDS. 



Russian and oriental, and there is no stroll so interesting 

 as through those interminable arcades, perfectly sheltered 

 from the rain, and admitting as much daylight from above 

 as is desirable, with the open warehouses, containing 

 every article bought and sold over a counter in Russia, 

 and swarming with the most motley assemblage of buyers ' 

 and sellers to be anywhere seen. 



