SOME NOTES OF TRAVEL

IN RUSSIA, IN THE CAUCASUS,
AND TO JERUSALEM

BY

CHARLES A. DANA

INTERD

FOLIAG

NEW YORK

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

1898

0J 1994

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CONTENTS.

RUSSIA AND THE CAUCASUS.

I. ACROSS THE FOUR SEAS TO ODESSA

II. THE RUSSIAN RIVIERA

III. THE SOUTHERN ASPECTS OF THE CAUCASUS 34

IV. TIFLIS AND TRANS-CAUCASIA

45

V. THROUGH THE DARIAL PASS TO ROSTOV. 62

VI. NIJNI, THE NEW CITY

VII. MOSCOW AND WARSAW

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EASTERN JOURNEYS.

I.

ACROSS THE FOUR SEAS TO

ODESSA.

IT was a beautiful afternoon in May when our ship steamed out of the harbor of Marseilles. We had laid out an interesting scheme of travel, and we were now beginning its realization. We were going through the Mediterranean, stopping at two places in Greece, thence to Salonica and Constantinople, and from there to Odessa in Russia. From there by ship the whole length of the Black Sea to Batoum, thence by rail to Tiflis and Baku on the Caspian Sea, then again by rail to Samarcand in Turkestan, and finally back from Central Asia through European Russia, Poland, and Germany