Recollections of a Tour in the North of Europe in 1836-1837, Volume 1R. Bentley, 1838 |
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Academy agriculture Altai Amongst amount annual budget appears archines balls banks Black Sea Blagodate branches capital Casan Caspian Sea Catherine Catherine II Chinese church climate colonies commerce copecks corps Cossacks cotton cultivation dinner dressed ecclesiastical schools Emperor empire Empress Empress Anne entrepôt establishments Europe expedition expense exports formed furnished furs Grand Duke houses hundred immense Imperial important increased inhabitants institution Kalonga Kherson Kiakhta Kirghises labours ladies less Majesty manufactures ment merchants mines minister Mongul Moscow Mussulmen navigation Neva Nijny Novgorod Novaia-Zemlia number of pupils observatory Odessa organised Pakhloussoff Peter Petersburgh Poland poods population ports present Prince produce provinces public instruction quantity reckons reign rich Riga river roubles Russian Russian empire shores Siberia silk sold southern Steppes stone superintendence Taganrog Tartar tchetverts theatre tion Tobolsk total number towns TRADE OF ODESSA vast versts vessels Warsaw wersts whilst wool zolotniks
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Pagina 91 - On the other hand, it must not be inferred from what has been said above that the advanced student of scientific ability is kept in leading strings throughout his whole university course. He usually plans his work for the coming year in consultation with a professor with whom he stands in close relations, and when he once has entered on a piece of real investigation...
Pagina 99 - Each of these basins is from 20 to 25 versts in circumference ; and the action of the sun produces in them, during the summer season, crystals of salt so numerous, that by mutual contact they at length form thick and solid arches, which like winter ice cover the surface of the lakes. These masses are frequently nine inches thick ; the action of the air whitens the upper layers ; the lower ones preserve a bluish tint, which in some places assumes a beautiful violet hue ; and the solidity of these...
Pagina 13 - ... power to accomplish it. Really I have so much love for England, that when the Journals and the Radicals were abusing me outrageously, I had the greatest desire to put myself into a steam-boat and proceed direct to London (apprising the King of course of my intended arrival), to present myself among reasonable and fairjudging Englishmen, to converse with them and to show them how unjustly I was aspersed. It is my ardent wish to cultivate peaceable relations of amity with all powers. I want interior...
Pagina 147 - An account of the advance and progress of public instruction in Russia, from the time of Peter the Great to the present day.
Pagina 99 - ... natural productions of these regions, among which must be reckoned the lakes of salt water so numerous in the Steppes. CRYSTAL FIELDS. 99 Important as they are, in relation to trade and commerce, these lakes likewise present a series of interesting phenomena to the naturalist. Their waters hold so great a quantity of salt in solution, that the action of the summer heat is of itself sufficient to convert it into crystals, which, carried towards the banks by the action of the waves, form there...
Pagina 210 - European architecture, a Russian guard and sentinels ; on the other was seen one of those fantastical edifices which the Chinese erect at the entrance of their towns, having its walls covered with grotesque sculptures, inscriptions, and paintings in gaudy colours. At Kiakhta regular streets are formed...
Pagina 211 - ... one of the most important articles of the Kiakhta trade. These cakes are composed of a mixture of tea and of the leaves of a plant of the saxifraga genus, found in the southern part of the Mongol Steppes, and which is first steeped in lambs
Pagina 210 - Koursk, rise the cupolas and bells of several churches. At Ma'imatchine, on the contrary, the streets, gloomy and narrow, are formed by walls with no windows in them. The court-yards enclosed by these walls have round them small dwelling-houses, warehouses, and shops, in which is seen all the rich produce of China.
Pagina 211 - ... cakes are dissolved in boiling water mixed with meal, fat, and salt. This tea is in great request throughout all the nomadic tribes of Central Asia, and the Russian merchants buy at Kiakhta considerable quantities of it, to be again sold at the fair of Nijny-Novgorod, to the wandering Tartars or Moguls subject to Russia. Next to tea, Chinese cottons were the most remarkable article imported — especially nankeens — which were sold in packets containing ten pieces each ; these packets, which...
Pagina 13 - couleur de rose' with which everything must have been invested in his eyes, we still have facts enough brought forward on which we are bound to place reliance. Such, for example, is the Emperor's own declaration : — ' England and Russia are so placed geographically by Providence, that they ought always to understand each other and be friends ; and I have ever done all in my power to accomplish it. Really I have so much love for England, that when the Journals and the Radicals were abusing me outrageously,...