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Excerpt from Travels on the Shores of the Baltic: Extended to Moscow Northern Asia. Such, however, has been the turn of events, that, valuable as the books are that are already in circulation upon the countries through which this tour was made, it is now thought there is still place for another account of the towns and coasts that our ships are blockading, and for another glance at the capital cities of our enemies, taken while they were yet our friends, provided the particular phase in which they are seen, be not precisely that which has been shown of them by others. The time at which these travels were performed, if that were a matter of importance to a narrative of this character, is at least more recent than the date of the majority of those that have appeared. To convey anything more than the impressions of a summer tourist, concerning persons and things as they passed before his eyes, open only upon what amused him by its novelty, or excited his interest, as character istic of the customs and manners, and mode of thinking, of the people among whom he was travelling, this volume has no pretensions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.