I40 TRAVELS OF A NATURALIST 



In the evening we went inside the large church (St. 

 Isaak's), and saw eleven malachite columns, each of which 

 cost £10,000, magnificent diamonds, and frettings of 

 silver and gold. 



June 8. 



Saturday, the 8th of June, a ver}' hot day, we left 

 St. Petersbourg without regret at 1 p.m., on board the 

 Alexander. We could not find the German naturalist, but 

 several people on board spoke English and were very civil, 

 especially two naval officers, and a young Pole, Stanislas 

 Waselewski, fourteen years of age, who knows three 

 languages. His mother was a Miss Clarke, daughter of 

 Shergold's partner. So far we get on swimmingly. 



The country is dull, but Lake Ladoga is like the open 

 sea, no land visible to the north-east, giving all the 

 pleasures of a sail without the disagreeables, except that 

 we had to wait nearly two hours for dinner after order- 

 ing it. 



We saw a Gull which may have been Lams cachin- 

 nans. 



We slept on deck comfortably, the night being fine and 

 warm. 



June 9. 



Sunday, the 9th of June, was a fine very hot day. We 

 arrived at Novaja Ladoga about 3 a.m., where the Pole 

 left us, giving us messages to Shergold and others whom 

 he knew in Archangel. We now sailed up the Swir Eiver 

 which connects Lakes Ladoga and Onega, a fine deep, 

 broad river. 



We discovered the German naturalist by seeing him 

 closely scrutinising a horse-fly. He speaks no Russ 

 however. His name is Herr Jacobi, of Frankfort, and 

 he is collecting for the Museum. He goes to Archangel, 

 and thence, if he can get a vessel, to Spitsbergen, and 

 perhaps Novaja Zemlya, in search of plants and insects. 



