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dilapidated tomb ; and to the " peeping botanist" these stem * entangled flowers , grey moss and weeds , or long grass whistling in the lonely wind ! Enough for me , and for those who have felt what Hamlet was , to lose ourselves , and all this changeful littleness of time , in the absorbing thought that he ( to use the
fine analysis of Hazlitt , ) " whose hopes had been blighted , and his youth staggered by the apparitions of strange things , whose powers of action have been eaten up by thought ; to whom the universe seemed every thing , and himself nothing ; " here laid down his burden , and took up his lasting rest . Beautiful weather added charms to our ramble over 3 £ lsineur .
The town was clean to a nicety , and the country , as well as th ^ people , highly picturesque . We breakfasted on shore , bought fruits and refreshments of various kinds for our fellow-passengers , and at mid-day went aboard and weighed anchor . We made little progress that day , as we were soon obliged to come to an anchor almost abreast of Copenhagen . The city has a very imposing appearance from the sea , and I could not sufficiently admire the skill and daring of the intrepid Nelson in bringing his fleet into shoal water , to bombard such a formidable place , which lias
batteries down to the water ' s edge ! My little girl enjoyed the voyage uncommonly ; never ill a day ; but my wife suffered dreadfully , as did the other passengers . A gentleman , named Lucas , and a young lad , were so ill that I thought at one time they would have died . My ministrations to
the sufferers under my care were very trying to me , on the score of qualmy sympathy ; and eventually proved fatal . What with holding , or endeavouring to hold , the tossing crest of my better half ; and also attempting the same—at spare intervalsfor that stupid maid-servant my wife would bring with us ; I was
eventually seized with the insurmountable " all-overishness / ' and hurrying upon deck , rushed to leeward ! Whereat the captaina fellow whose voyages had been as those of a mere shrimp compared with mine—laughed so immoderately , that had I known him for as good a swimmer as he afterwards proved , I really think I should have pushed him overboard !
Cronstadt is a small island and town where the foreign ships lay , as none drawing more than eight feet water can go up to tit Petersburg-. They are all inside a wall , secure from winds and storms .. The difficulties , delays , and vexations of effecting an entrance into Russia , is beyond conception . How others may have fared I know not ; but had the place literally been an
elysiuin , there could not have been made a greater fuss about the admission of strangers . Such questioning , such writing , such examining of passes ; and this over and over again at every inch you moved , or even if you remained where you were ; I began at last to fancy that I must actually be a very suspicious dbarac-
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Notes of a Trip to St Petersburg . 499
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1836, page 499, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2660/page/39/
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