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bout eighteen or twenty Miles from the fcituation 

 of the prefent famous City of Peterjburgh, Its 

 Buildings confifted principally of Free-ftone ; the 

 Streets were pretty regular, and wide enough ; 

 and on one fide of the publick Square jftood a new 

 built Burfe or Exchange, that had a very hand- 

 fome Front. It is upon an eminence on the South- 

 fide of a navigable River that bears the fame name^ 

 having a large Caftle or Citadel on the northern 

 or oppofite bank, to defend the Town in a part 

 where the Fortifications were old and irregular ; 

 the reft of its Works were modern, and of courfe 

 good. It had three Churches, viz, a Sweedijh^ a 

 High Dutch^ and an Ejiglijh one, befides another 

 for the FinlanderSy between the inward wall that 

 covered the houfes and one of the large Baftions 

 near a Draw-bridge on the Wefi:ern fide of the 

 Town : None of them were fine Buildings ^ but 

 that belonging to the EngliJhyV/2.s made out of a 

 Stable or Wood-houfe, and confequently by far 

 the meanefi:. It had confiderable Suburbs at a 

 little difi:ance on each fide of the River ; that on 

 the South-fide confifi:ing chiefly of Sweeds y and 

 that on the North-fide of trading MufcoviteSyVfho 

 had built a Church there for People of their 

 Communion, which they pretend to be the true 

 ancient Greek one : And as there was a Bridge 

 between the Town and Cafl:le, you may fuppofe 

 there was an eafy communication between them 



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