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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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serving hour. How I wish you had been withus last voyage; there were clouds of such an extra-ordinary colour. And so he was happy to go on,at any length, in these matters of newly and ration-ally acquired interest. Then, too, he would also regret that he had notbegun to record his Baltic experiences earlier, havingwitnessed in that sea so many remarkable stormsand hair-breadth escapes. In those days, though,what he had looked to most, and remembered best,was always the danger more or less to the ship,rather than any abstract feature of meteorology :the enormous deck-loads, for instance, which Balticmerchants will crowd on their Baltic ships; cottonbales standing on deck as high as haystacks, andforcing therefore any sea that may break over thevessels stern to rush straight down into the engine-room at once, stop the engine, make the ship lie likea log on the waters, get swamped, and then godown; or, enormous masses of cast and wroughtiron, such as gigantic boilers and frames of colos-
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ST. ALEXANDER NEVSKI, AND THE END. 517 sal steam-engines, which, in spite of all the fas-tening they received from the riggers in dock, breakloose when the vessel begins to roll in a heavy sea,and then carry death and destruction with them.They cannot be thrown overboard by the crew, thesemonstrous masses,—they are too heavy for that,—and the bulwarks prevent them falling clear of theirown accord. But then no bulwarks can long con-tinue to stand the thundering blows of these tonsof iron rolling from side to side every few seconds;and if the storm lasts long, the bulwarks and thewhole sides of the vessel are actually beaten awayfrom its deck, so that when a wave breaks there-upon, the water enters everywhere, battened hatchesnotwithstanding, and hull, and goods, and all go tothe bottom; all, except the rich ship-owner, who, re-maining safe on shore, insures the present vessel foras much as will build him another and a better, andthen insists on his captain loading the one he has,ab

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