Identifier: boytravellersinr00knox (find matches)
Title: The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across Siberia..
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896
Subjects: Soviet Union -- Description and travel Siberia (Russia)
Publisher: New York : Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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h for hoisting and pumping; new precautions were takenagainst fire ; all improved systems of mine-working were tested, and thosewhich proved useful were adopted; and to-day the mines of Wieliczkamay be considered, in every respect, the foremost salt-mines in the world. 4:0 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. CHAPTER II. LEAVIXG CRACOW.—THE RUSSIAN FRONTIER.—THE POLICE AXD THE CUSTOM-HOUSE.—RUSSIAN CENSORSHIP OF BOOKS AND PAPERS.—CATCHING A SMUG-GLER.—FROM THE FRONTIER TO WARSAW.—SIGHTS AND INCIDENTS IN THECAPITAL OF POLAND.—FROM WARSAW TO ST. PETERSBURG. THE Sim was setting as our friends readied Cracow, on their returnfrom Wieliczka. The walls of the city were gilded by the rays oflight that streamed over the hills which formed the western horizon. Inall its features the scene was well calculated to impress the youthful trav-ellers. Frank wished to make a sketch of the gate-way through which)they passed on their entrance within the walls, but the hour was late and
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OUTER AVALL OF CRACOW. ENTERING RUSSIA. 41 delay inadvisable. The commissioner said he would bi-ing them a photo-graph of the spot, and with this consolation the young man dismissed fromhis mind the idea of the sketch. All retired early, as they intended taking the morning train for theRussian frontier, and thence to Warsaw. They were up in good season,and at the appointed time the train carried them out of the ancient capi-tal of Poland. At Granitsa, the frontier station, they had a halt of nearly two hours.Their passports were carefully examined by the Russian officials, whiletheir trunks underwent a vigorous overhauling. The passports proved tobe entirely in order, and there was no trouble witli them. The officialswere particularly polite to the American trio, and said they were alwayspleased to welcome Americans to the Empire. They were less courteousto an Englishman who arrived by the same train, and the Doctor said itwas evident that the Crimean warhad not been entirely forgotte

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