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_ACROSS EUROPE._

Departure for Petersburg.--Official receptions.--Minister of the Interior.--Metropolitan of Moscow.--Introductions.--Books forwarded.--Departure for Moscow.--Nijni Novgorod.--Site of the fair.--Joined by interpreter.--Kasan.--Bulgarian antiquities.--Neighbouring heathen.--Idolatrous objects and practices.--Departure from Kasan.--The Volga and the Kama.--Arrival at Perm 9