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continually, we both arrived, in full career, safe at St. Petersburgh, contrary to our respective expectations, and very much to the astonishment of the beholders.
I shall not tire my Readers with the politicks, arts, sciences, and history of this magnificent metropolis of Russia; nor trouble them with the various intrigues, and pleasing adventures I had in the politer circles of that country, where the lady of the house always receives the visitor with a dram and a salute. I shall confine myself rather to the greater and nobler
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