HO 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 very 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 Larus cacliin- 

 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 Euss 

 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. 



