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foot, and Flea-bane. The rest were all 
strangers 1 . — On the eastern banks arc exten- ' 
sive low woods, hardly rising above the head . 
these are so filled with nightingales, that 
their songs are heard, even in the town, 
during the whole night. There is, moreover, 
a kind of toad, or frog, which the Empress 
Elizabeth transported to the marshes near 
Moscow. Its croaking is loud and deep- 
toned, and may be also termed musical ; filling 
the air with full hollow sounds, very like the 
cry of the old English harrier. This kind of 
reptile is not known in the north ot Europe. 
The noise it makes is in general loud enough to 
be heard for miles, joining with, and sometimes 
overpowering, the sweeter melody of nightin- 
gales. This circumstance gives quite a new 
character to the evening and to the night. 
Poets in Russia cannot describe silence and 
solemnity as characteristics of the midnight 
hour ; but rather a loud and busy clamour, 
totally inconsistent with the opening of Grays 
Elegy, and the Night Thoughts of Young. 
Peter the First founded Paulovskoy, and 
named it in honour of St. Paul. It was designed 
(I) Campanula Sibirica — Dracoecphalum Ruyschiana — Onosma 
simplicissima — Anthemis tinctoria. 
