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ther upon the Ice, where it flood ered all Win- 

 ter ^ and there coming on a gradual thaw next 

 Spring, the whole Fabrick funk as gradually down, 

 with little or no detriment. The Sea is there frozen 

 as far as Eye can reach. 



16. I confulted the Author of the Life o^ Peter 

 the Great, about this Pier, who does not fo much 

 as once mention it ; neither does Captain Perry ^ 

 though he was fo long Engineer to him, and of 

 courfe muft have a hand in his great Projedls of 

 this kind: However, the latter gives us an ac- 

 count of the Building of Cronjlot Callle, near 

 Peterjburgh, which was founded in much the 

 fame manner, viz. It flands on a Sand-bank in 

 the midft of the Sea, about a Cannon-fhot from 

 the Ifland of Retufari^ and a mile from the Coaft 

 of Ingria-y The Foundation of it was laid in 

 Winter, upon the Ice, with Boxes made of ftrong 

 Timber, and filled with Stone, on v^hich the reft 

 was afterwards built with Timber filled up wuth 

 Earth. This Caftle is round, with three Galle- 

 ries about it, above each other, and well furnifli'^ 

 ed with Cannon. 



17. We did not ftay above two or three days 

 at Revel y before we fet fail on our return to Cope?2^ 

 hagen^ where we faw an Eftglijl:) Man of War rid-^ 

 ing at Anchor before the Mouth of the fine Har- 

 bour, on purpofe to fee the Da7iifi Fleet unrig- 

 ged and laid up for the year : She was one of the 



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