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Der Eispallast auf der Newa zu St. Petersburg
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Miscell. Subj. LXXXIX. Vol. VI. No. 29., THE ICE-PALACE UPON THE NEWA AT ST. PETERSBOURG., 1 ho QIIL Section, No. 15 of onr Gallery Fig.. I. the length of which amounted to 52J-, already informed us of the nature of the ice, the breadth to about 16, and the height to a:;d gave us an Recount of a fatali palace, 20 feet. All the decorations of it, the ftatues built with ice. v.'hich we fee here :rprc-[en- themfelves were of ice. At the entrance layted. This happened in la* rigorous wiuter, two dolphins (Fig.. 2.) that in the night caft 1740 at Petersbiurg, in the r«ign of the Era- out ftrcams of burning Naphta. Hard by were pieTs Anna, one attempted already in the placed canons and mortars (Fig.. 3.4.) wholly November, IJtf}, the Brfi building on the tur.i'd out of ice., where with they went fo frozen river of Newn, but die ice of r. cculd fax as to ritfa a [snail charge of gunuot Lear the burden, awl tu yield, powder. Within the palace there were feveNeverthelefs loon afterwards the hructure ral chambei 1, with tables, chairs, watches was repeated on the continent between the and other furniture, altogether wrought out Fort of the Admiralty and the Winterpslace; of ice. Thus this curious ice - palace remain'd which perfectly fucceeded. The large tHpi feveral months till the end of March, when hewn out of ice, were Caßcn'd 6y na I the milder weather bv degrees taeâted it upon it, thai immediately coa^ -. down, viis manner avole the ice-palace, depicted
