The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1896-08-08

We received the following interesting
| letter from our friend A. Dimmick
written on ship board at St. Petersburg
and mailed at Moscow:
st. Petersburg, Russia, July 90, 1895.
Editor COURIER:
To fulfill a partial promise I send you
few iottings Of my journey to the land
of the midnight SUM-"
We left New York on the 9th of June
and arrived at Southampton, Eng, on
the morning of the 9th Of July without
incident of note. Sailed same day for
st. Petersburg. We passed between
the Isle of Wight and the main land,
passing close to the town of Cowes, and
the Queens residence Osborn House),
passed the Chalk Cliffs and Dover at
shutdown where we could see the lights
on either shore, England and France.
All next day we steamed up the North
Sea without sighting land. Friday we
sailed through the Skoggersack and the
Cattegat. and next morning when | got
out on deck, we were sailing up the
Baltic sea, coasting along the coast of
ed to the right of the Island of Goth
land and all day Sunday rode the stormy
Baltic. Toward night we began to see
the islands at the entrance of the Gulf
OF Finland, and next morning found US
anchored at Cronstadt, the great naval
station of Russia. Cannon to the right
of us, cannon to the left of US, cannon
in the front of us-all desying the ma
vies of the world to take them
After passing courteous examination
We were allowed to steam up to st.
Petersburg in the evening and got to
our hotel before sundown. From Cron-
stadt to st. Petersburg we sailed
through canal as straight as a line,
dug through the middle of the gulf,
and the wide mouth of the Neva, 200
water outside the poles which indicate
the channel being only six to twelve
feet deep.
After spending two full days in St.
Petersbargn We went on to Moscow,
where, afteltspending four days, we re-
turned to let. Petersburg on Sunday
night. At Moscow We visited all places
of interest, among which the Kremlin
is the most notable. Being Americans
we were allowed especial privileges aud
mauy places were opened to US which
other people are not allowed to enter
some of which were the dining hall of
the Gar, the secret council room. the
Royal Treasures, &c. In the Royal
L F6asuFies, OOL0 OF MOSCOW anu 81.
Petersburg, our guides tell us-and our
guide books tell us-that we havasaenn
more treasure, more wealth in this the
Royal Treasury Of Russia, than all the
royal treasures of all the nations of
Europe combined other than Russia. |
The fact is that the wealth stored up in
the Greek churches and monasteries,
the Kremlin and Winter palace and
other places both in st. Petersburg and
Moscow, are simply indescribable and
can only be referred to in newspaper
article.
The weather 10 warm and beautiful,
we are as far north as the |
southern point of Greenland.
Tomorrow we sail away from st. |
Petersburg for Finland, thence to
and Copenhagen and then
up the coast of Norway 20 North Cape,
the most northerly point of Europe, to |
see the midnight sun and then turn
south so as to arrive at Bodo in Norway |
to view the total eclipse of the sun on
the 9th of August.
| send you poem read by Miss Mary
Proctor at the 4th of Jnly celebration on
board the ship. May send you further
notes in the near future.
AsDIMMIcK.