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virtue.” So spake the Sage, in words never to c ^p. 
be forgotten : unenvied be the man who has not 
felt their force; lamented he who does not 
know their author ! 
The town of Nicholaef, covering a great Nicholaef, 
extent of territory, with numerous buildings, 
intersected by wide streets, makes a splendid 
and very considerable appearance'. 1 he whole 
of it is of recent date. The river Bog flows 
quite round the place, in a broad and ample 
channel. Ships of the line cannot approach the 
buildings, owing to a sand-bank; but brigs and 
other small vessels are carried over by means 
of the floating machines called camels, in use at 
Petersburg and many other parts of Russia. The 
arsenals, store-houses, and other works, are so 
extensive, that it is evident great efforts have 
been made to render this a place of high 
importance to the Russian navy. The Admiral- 
in-chief of the Black Sea, as well as the Vice- 
(1) “Nicolaeff, on the Bog, is a rising town, very advantageously 
situated: being without the Bar of the Dnieper, it is the station for 
vessels when built ; and here they are laid up to be repaired. Nothing, 
I should think, but the expense of new dock-yards induces Government 
to persevere in their system of building vessels at Cherson, when this 
neighbouring town has so many superior advantages. It has a fine 
river, without cither bar or cataract; deep, still water, and an 
healthy situation. Vessels, however, are said to decay sooner than at 
Sebastopole.” lleber's MS. Journal. 
