CHAP. T. 
PETERSBURG. 
Preliminary Observation s — State of Public Affairs — 
Strange Conduct of the Emperor — Insolence of the 
Police — Extraordinary Phenomenon. 
curiosity to visit the Eastern bounda- 
ries of Europe is naturally excited by the 
circumstance of their situation, in a country 
rarely traversed by any literary traveller, and 
little noticed either in antient or in modern 
history. Above two thousand years ago, the 
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