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houses may be reckoned at about one-third of that number. Kittlitz, 

 in 1829, found the settlement to number about two hundred m- 

 habitants, and at the time of our visit we were informed that there 

 were over three hundred ; a number that I should myself be inclined 

 to think overstated. 



Standing on the now deserted sand-spit, — the natural break- 

 water of the harlwur, — the view of the little town and its surround- 



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ings is strikingly picturesque. To the left is the wooded promontory, 

 the scene of the unfortunate disaster which occurred to the forces 

 of the Allied Fleet in 1854. On the right a hill of some fifteen 

 hundred feet dominates the town, whose log huts are clustered 

 around the shores of the little bay. Here and there a white- 

 painted house of greater pretension strikes the eye, and a stunted 

 grove of trees shelters the church, and the graveyard studded with 

 Eussian crosses. Behind the town, artistically filling in the gap 



