The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-04-18
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hills, and timber yards, and warehouse
and the refuse of materials sufficient 10
supply an empire with miserable towns
ana villages. One might imagine that ey
cry town in Europe and Asia had sent n
pulldlng, by Wy of representative to Mos
gov. on see deputies from all countries
holding congress. Timber huts from the
norm OF the Gulf of Bothnia, plastered
pafaees from Stockholm and Copenhagen.
not WhlteWashed since their arrival, paint
ed walls from Tirot, mosques from Con-
stantlnople, Tartar temples, pagodas, and
paVlllons from Pekin, carbarets from Spain.
dungeons, prisons, and public offices from
france, RUNS and fragments of archltec-
lure from Rome, terraces from Naples, and
warehouses from Mapping.
linen you hear accounts of its immense
population; and wander thrnurh deserted
sreets.-Passlng suddenly, towards the
quarter where the shops are situated, you
think you must walk upon the heads of
thousands. The daily throng is there so
immense, that, unable to squeeze a passage
through it, You ask, what has convened
such multitude ? and are told, it is al
ways SOP Such variety of dress
Greeks, Turks, Tartars, Cossacks, Musco-
vites, English, French, Italians, Germans,
Poles, &c.
We are in a Russian inn The next
room to ours is filled by the ambassadors
from Persia. Beyond these, lodge party
OF kirghlcians, people yet unknown
Beyond these party of Bucharians, and all
OF them are ambassadors, sent from their re-
spective districts to treat of commerce,
peace and war, at Petersburgh The Kir-
ghicians and Bucharians | keep at arms
length; but our old friend the Persian Wis
its us and we visit him. His name is Orazia,
and ] am so great favorite with him. that
he admits me to be present at his devo-
tons, and | see him stand for hours on a
carpet, with his face to Mecca, in silent
meditation. 1t is then he says he holds in
tellectual converse with Mahomet-Yes
terday he gave ne pair of Persian slip
pers as memorial, and gave MN knife
to shave his head with,
We went at midnight to the cathedral to
be present at the ceremony of the resur-
rection. About two o'clock in the morning
the Archbishop, attended by all his bishops
and priests, in habits of embroidered satin
covered with gold and silver and precious
stones, bear the consecrated candles to
look into the holy sepulchre, and finding
that Jesus was risen announced it with a
l0ud voice, AqucmocD. Docpecb! that Is
to say Christ is risen!' and at the deliv-
cry of these important words, the signal is
given for eating flesh, drinking and dam
cling. To be drunk the whole Easter
week, is as much religious observance as
to abstain from flesh in Lent; and the
] p Iissia az r1i,ss>t.-->i g. l. .---'
| Of course, you saw at Petcrsburgh tic
Russian priests, in their long black boards
and with their hair in long ringlets, with
out powder, or quite in straight locks, over
their rich robes and shoulders. No figure
can be more respectable than a Russian
priest / look ut them and fancyI behold
Moses or Aaron, or one OF the high priests
of old, holy understanding by the taberna-
Gle of the congregation, in fine raiments,
the workmanship of Be2aleel, the son Of
Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Ju-
dahl"