Excerpt from St. Petersburgh, a Journal of Travels to and From That Capital, Vol. 2 of 2: Through Flanders, the Rhenish Provinces, Prussia, Russia, Poland, Silesia, Saxony, the Federated States of Germany and France Commercial and other Establishments of Industry, and their Buildings. The Imperial Exchange - The Rostral Columns - The first Foreign Ship at St. Petersburgh -peter the Great and the Dutch Ski pper.-inaugura tion of the New Exchange - Afiability and Condescension of Alexander the First towards the English Merchanta - New Imperial Warehouses. - Cus tom house-navigation of Merchant Vessels up the neva.-number of Vascla entered at St. Petersburgh in 1827. - Amount of Tonnage for that Year - Lists of Imports and Experts for the last ten years-balance of Export Trade in favour of Russia - General value of Corn exported in 1898 and 1891. - Custom-house Revenue, during the last six years. Ssudy increase of it every year - Number of Vessels entered and cleared. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.