MOSCOW. 



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seen at once on a fine, rich-looking level or gently undulating 

 field. Similar scenes were noticed for miles over a country 

 reminding me of our Western prairies. 



Here and there was a town, village, or hamlet. Numerous 

 small streams furnished a good supply of water. The culti- 

 vated fields were divided by lines of turf, in consequence of 

 the absence of rocks for walls or wood for fences. The 

 embankments of the railroad were kept from washing out by 

 the same means, and also by willow branches fastened down 

 with cross pieces on wooden pins. Many horses, cattle, and 

 sheep, with some hogs, 

 were eating the young- 

 grass. Banks of snow 

 five to ten feet deep and 

 sometimes 200 feet long, 

 attested the severity of 

 the winter. 



We arrived at Mos- 

 cow at nine A. M., April 

 29th, and found nice 

 quarters at Slavanski 

 Bazaar. The hum of 

 the city sounded "natu- 

 ral. Moscow is a fine 

 old city, with many 

 scenes of interest; her 

 cathedral, churches, and 

 old palaces, the Krem- 

 lin, the big bell, the 

 chapel of John the Ter- 

 rible, the gates of the 

 city, the maiden monas- 

 tery where a sister of GREAT BELL OF MOSCOW. 



Peter the Great was confined, and a foundling hospital being 

 among them. I attended one very interesting wedding in 

 this city, and then bidding good-bye to Moscow and to some 



