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Title: Three cities in Russia
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Smyth, C. Piazzi (Charles Piazzi), 1819-1900
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Publisher: London, L. Reeve
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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that noble Lord, themere mention of whose style and title takes awayfrom them all excuse of not knowing, will continuethus to ignore what is in existence, and will repu-diate the works both of man and of nature in thatvast Russian empire, for no other reason apparentlythan because it is Russian,—can we be surprisedthat our mere literary men copying from them, andnot looking very deeply into the real merits of thecase, but finding Russia nearly a blank in our na-tural history and other books,—declaim in nervouslanguage, which cuts both ways, no other em-pire than that of Russia ever succeeded in keepingso vast a portion of the globe a secret and a mysteryto the rest of mankind? Yet whose is the fault ?Russias, who has armies of savants continuallyengaged in exploring and developing, describingin memoirs, and exhibiting in public museums; andwho prints and publishes annually 1861 books inSt. Petersburg alone; or our Diffusion of Know-ledge Society, which will persistently refuse to
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THE FEOZEN MAMMOTH. 217 look into any of these books, and will not conde-scend to quote them, their authors, or their public;even in so simple, and broad, a matter as the merevernacular name by which fifty millions of Slavonicmen designate a well-known little quadruped, indi-genous over the greater part of their immense em-pire? Oh! Henry Lord Brougham and Yaux, isnot a Slavonian a man and a brother ! From the tiny hedgehog, placed though it beby Cuvier at the head of insectivorous mammifers,we must now hasten into the rotunda-room of theskeleton of the gigantic Siberian mammoth; thatunique link between fossil remains and living ani-mals, whose flesh was actually eaten, and good toeat, in our own day, though life must have left itlong before the period of man upon earth. The neighbourhood was rather too crowded fora good view, but Dr. Brandt kindly brought in anumber of soldiers, and they walked about thestuffed rhinoceroses, and trotted off the preservedelephants and other such very

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