Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by TICKNOR ANDFIELDS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District ofMassachusetts.
A CRUISE ON LAKE LADOGA.
WET-WEATHER WORK.
THE REAPER'S DREAM.
THE NEW-ENGLAND REVOLUTION OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
SOME ACCOUNT OF THE EARLY LIFE OF AN OLD BACHELOR.
THE SNOW-MAN.
THE GOLD-FIELDS OF NOVA SCOTIA.
LIFE ON THE SEA ISLANDS.
GOLD HAIR.
CALIFORNIA AS A VINELAND.
TO A YOUNG GIRL DYING:
THE RIM.
TYPES.
HOUSE AND HOME PAPERS.
REENLISTED.
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES.
"Dear Q.,—The steamboat Valamo is advertised to leave on Tuesday, the26th, (July 8th, New Style,) for Serdopol, at the very head of LakeLadoga, stopping on the way at Schlüsselburg, Konewitz Island, Kexholm,and the island and monastery of Valaam. The anniversary of SaintsSergius and Herrmann, miracle-workers, will be celebrated at thelast-named place on Thursday, and the festival of the Apostles Peter andPaul on Friday. If the weather is fine, the boat will take passengers tothe Holy Island. The fare is nine rubles for the trip. You can be backagain in St. Petersburg by six o'clock on Saturday evening. Provisionscan be had on board, but (probably) not beds; so, if you are luxuriousin this particular, take along your own sheets, pillow-cases, andblankets. I intend going, and depend upon your company. Make up yourmind by ten o'clock, when I will call for your decision.
"Yours,
"P."
I laid down the note, looked at my watch, and found that I had an hourfor deliberation before P.'s arrival. "Lake Ladoga?" said I to myself;"it is the largest lake in Europe,—I learned that at school. It is fullof fish; it is stormy; and the Neva is its outlet. What else?" I tookdown a geographical dictionary, and obtained the following additionalparticulars: The name Lad'oga (not Lado'ga, as it is pronounced inAmerica) is Finnish, and means "new." The lake lies between 60° and 61°45' north latitude, is 175 versts—about 117 miles—in length, fromnorth to south, and 100 versts in breadth; receives the great riverVolkhoff on the south, the Svir, which pours into it the waters of LakeOnega, on the east, and the overflow of nearly half the lakes ofFinland, on the west; and is, in some parts, fourteen hundred feet deep.
Vainly, however, did I ransack my