Travels in Russia, Andc Andc |
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Author:
| Wilson, William Rae |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-30260-9 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2012 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $17.26 |
Book Description:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. II. Leaving Hamburgh. ? Price of posting. ? Roads. ? Boit- zenberg. ? Dress of peasants State of crops. ? Lubthen. ? Woods. ? Prussia. ? Lenzen. ? Perleberg. ? Storks. ?Kletzke.? Chateaux.?Kuritz. ? Fair. ?Peasantry Fehrbettin. ? Travelling machines. ? Optical deception.? State of roads Henningsdorf....
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. II. Leaving Hamburgh. ? Price of posting. ? Roads. ? Boit- zenberg. ? Dress of peasants State of crops. ? Lubthen. ? Woods. ? Prussia. ? Lenzen. ? Perleberg. ? Storks. ?Kletzke.? Chateaux.?Kuritz. ? Fair. ?Peasantry Fehrbettin. ? Travelling machines. ? Optical deception.? State of roads Henningsdorf. ?River Havel. ? Enormous stones. ? Remarks. ? Arrival at Berlin. Among other arrangements preparatory to leaving Hamburgh, we engaged a servant who could speak the Russian language. The agreement was expressed in writing, and copies of it exchanged, a precaution that ought strongly to be recommended to travellers, in order to prevent those disputes which too often arise when the parties make only a verbal contract. We also purchased a light barouche and fire-arms; and having provided ourselves with passports, proper money, andc. set out on the morning of the 10th of June. For three horses we paid 13 marks 8 skillings, or 18s. sterling, for fifteen miles; and it should be observed, that the expense, on departing from this place, is greater than at any future stages. 42 BADNESS OF THE ROADS. About three miles beyond this city our route lay across a long tract of deep sand, and we passed through Bergdorff. The houses here are built of brick, with rows of trees in front of them; and as one proof how much the place is exposed to fire, there was an engine stationed at each end of it. Of the tediousness of our progress, and the state of the roads, the reader may form some idea, when he is told that it occupied from nine in the morning till two o'clock in the afternoon, to travel five English miles; a pace better suited for cogitation, or adapted to the wishes of a draftsman desirous of sketching the landscape, than gratifying to those who relish the excitement ...