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April 30. A Visit to a Dead City in the Baltic. (Illustrated with stereopticon). Dr. Hasket Derby, of Boston...
April 30. A Visit to a Dead City in the Baltic. (Illustrated with stereopticon). Dr. Hasket Derby, of Boston...
...emancipation from slavery was not sudden; it had its beginning in the reign of Alexander I, who gave liberty to 50,000 slaves and abolished personal servitude in the three Baltic provinces...
...been confused with the Saxons, but it is not at all probable that such a seafaring race as the Saxons must thus have been, could have so completely changed their habits in 300 years, and moreover have left no traces of their previous customs. On the shores of the Baltic Mr. du Chaillu discovered countless graves in which were Roman coins of gold and silver dating back to Augustus and Tiberius, even as late as the Republic, also Greek vases of wonderful work and glass vases which are not equaled by the workmanship of modern times. Graves similar to these...
...Chaillu spoke also of his travels and explorations in Germany and in the basin of the Baltic...