 If we are to believe the Russians, all their roads are good during the summer season, even those that are not the great highways. I find them all bad. A road full of inequalities, sometimes as broad as a field, sometimes extremely narrow, passes through...  Russia - Pagina 104door Astolphe Louis L. marq. de Custine - 1844Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Astolphe de Custine - 2002 - 676 pagina’s
...OF TROITSA. — PESTALOZZI ON PERSONAL CLEANLINESS. — INTERIOR OF THE CONVENT. — PILGRIMS. — TOMBS AND TREASURES. — INCONVENIENCES OF A JOURNEY...absolutely impassable, when the extreme of cold renders traveling dangerous, when storms of snow bury the country, or when floods, produced by the thaw, transform,... | |
 | Edward H. Tarr - 2003 - 540 pagina’s
...their knees, lose their wind, break their traces, and refuse to draw at every twenty yards; if these are passed, you soon plunge into pools of mud which...destructive to the carriages. Such are the roads of this country, except during seasons when they become absolutely impassable, when the extreme of cold renders... | |
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