b o o k o n ] y tw0 ftone ftructures in d ll Peteriburgh, the one is a pa-
. lace, building by the emprefs upon the banks of the Neva,
called the marble-palace : it is of hewn granite, with marble
columns and ornaments ; the other is the church of St.
Ifaac, conftructed with the fame materials, but not yet fi-
nifhed.
The maniions of the nobility are many of them vaft piles
of building, but are not in general upon fo large and magnificent
a fcale as feveral I obferved at Mofcow : they are fur-
niihed with great coft, and in the fame elegant ftyle as at
Paris or London. They are fituated chiefly on the fouth-
fide of the Neva, either in the Admiralty Quarter, or in the
fuburbs of Livonia and Mofcow, which are the fineft parts
of the city.
The views upon the banks of the Neva exhibit the moil
grand and lively fcenes I ever beheld. That river is in molt
places broader than the Thames at London : it is alfo deep,
rapid, and as tranfparent as chryttal; and its banks are lined
on each fide with a continued range of handfome buildings.
On the north fide the fortrefs, the Academy of Sciences and
the Academy of Arts are the moft ftriking objects; on the
oppofite fide are the Imperial palace, the Admiralty, the
maniions o f many Ruffian nobles, and the Englifh line, fo
called becaufe (a few houfes excepted) the whole row is occupied
by the Englifh merchants. In the front of thefe
buildings, on the fouth fide, is the Quay, which ftretches for
three miles, except where it is interrupted by the Admiralty;
and the Neva, during the whole of that fpace, has been lately
embanked, at the expence of the emprefs, by a wall parapet
and pavement of hewn granite, a moft elegant and durable
monument of imperial munificence.
Peteriburgh,
Peteriburgh, although it is more compadt than the other CHAP-
Ruffian cities, and has the houfes in many ftreets contiguous - ■
to each other, yet ftill bears a refemblance to the towns of
this country, and is built in a very ftraggling manner. By
an order lately iflued from government, the city has been
enclofed within a rampart, the circumference whereof is 21
verfts, or 14 Englifh miles.
The average population of Peteriburgh may be colledted
from the following lift of births and deaths during feven
years.
Births.
Males
T77i _ , Females
17 72
1773
2459.
232a
*774
*775
17 76
1777
-Males
Females -
Males :
Females
i Natives.
Males
Females
Foreigners.
Males,
Females
2839
2598
2816
2581
2 7 17
2618
265
254
47 8i
=4759
-5 4 8 3
5437
=4961
5397
Deaths.
Males
Females
3 * 3 7 _
16 42'
5854
Males
Females
Males,
Females
Natives.
Males
Females
Foreigners.
Males
Females
4779
- 4727
= 5031
=4458
= 3107
2899
1559
2694
1 7 6 9 “ ^ 3
3 1 1 7
2043
2 6 5
235
Total of birth for 7 years 36,67 2 Total of deaths
;66o
32,165
Annual average of births, omitting fmall fradlions 5238
of deaths 4594
By multiplying thebirths 5238 by 25, thefumis 134,950;
and the deaths 4594 by 26, the fum is 119,444.