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INTELLECTUAL REPOSITORY,

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NEW JERUSALEM MAGAZINE.

VOL. XIV.-ENLARGED SERIES.

1867.

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AN ACCOUNT OF A RECENT VISIT TO NORWAY, SWEDEN, FINLAND, AND RUSSIA.

An Address delivered by the Rev. Dr. BAYLEY, in the Schoolroom of the Accrington New Jerusalem Church, August 20th, 1866, with additions.

(Concluded from December No.)

ST. PETERSBURG as a whole is a grand city, wide, and covers a large space, but its architecture is so much like that of Berlin and other European capitals, and it is situated on a site so flat, that I was not tempted to linger in it. I was glad to get on to Moscow. There is a railway of upwards of 400 miles long, over which you pass in twenty hours of very comfortable travelling.

Moscow is the ancient capital of Russia; not the first capital, but the second. There I found a city very different indeed from St. Petersburg; a city of great splendour, where the East meets the West; where the wonderful ideas of Asia are brought into contact with those of Europe. The city is situated upon various undulations of hill and dale, and has in its centre one of the grandest palaces that can be conceived, called the Kremlin, which covers a space of ground probably a third of a mile each way. It is built of white marble, having many towers and pinnacles. It has magnificent apartments of various kinds. It contains, within its walls, no less than thirteen churches. There is also a barracks contained within it, having many cannon in front. In Moscow itself there are 360 churches, many of them having minarets, like Turkish mosques, many with spires, and many with domes. Each church ordinarily has five towers or domes, and the centre one, repre