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Plioto by Gilbert II. Giosveiior 



the; First and last impre;ssion oi^ pi:trograd is the; noble; golde;n dome; of 



ST. ISAAC'S WATCHING OVE;r THE; CITY (sElC PAGE 508) 



the; rivkr in winte;r is covere;d with ice; so thick that tram cars run over it 



One must admire the Russian for the energy he has displayed in making a seaport of 

 Petrograd. and in developing a commerce for it almost as great as that of the city of 

 Baltimore. The city is built on a marsh as far north as the southern tip of Greenland. 

 Its waters freeze hard before Thanksgiving and do not melt before the end of April, and 

 all Its commerce must pass in or out by a canal from Kronstadt, 23 feet deep and 17^ 

 miles long. "With all its geographic greatness Russia is about as poor in natural outlets 

 to the world as the smallest of the countries of the earth. Holland could be hidden in the 

 vast reaches of the Russian plain, almost as a needle in a haystack, and yet Amsterdam alone 

 does more international business than all the seaports of Russia together" (see pages 

 423-425). 



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