496 HOME THROUGH RUSSIA. 



the Czar witli a portion of the highest rock in his 

 European dominions. 



It is now time to cut a long story short. Amongst 

 the sights of Moscow and St. Petersburg, and on the 

 homeward journey, I need not detain my readers, to 

 whom I here bid a hearty farewell, trusting that I may 

 persuade some of them to follow in our footsteps, and to 

 learn for themselves, on the slopes of Elbruz and at Russian 

 post-stations, the force of Shakspeare's questions : — 



Oh, who can hold a fire in his hand 

 By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? 

 Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite 

 By bare imagination of a feast ? 



