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COXE’S TRAVELS IN RUSSIA. 663
the Fontanka *, which are feveral miles in length, have been recently embanked in the
{ame manner, and add greatly to the beauty of the metropolis.
The quantity of polifhed cranite ufed in thefe public works is fufficient to aftonifh an
European archite&t, who confiders the hardnefs of the ftone, and the difficulty with
which it is polifhed. I have frequently viewed with furprize the procefs employed by
the Ruffian workmen, in fmoothing the granite. ‘They batter the ftone with an iron
hammer edged with fteel; the quantity which flies off at each ftroke is almoft imper-
ceptible ; but by repeatedly ftriking the fame place, the prominent parts are worn
away, and the ftone becomes fmooth. ‘To this gradual attrition may be applied the
proverb,
Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi fed fepe cadendo.
Peterfburgh, though more compact than other Ruifian cities, with the houfes in
many ftreets contiguous to each other, flill bears a refemblance to the towns of this
country, and is built in a very ftraggling manner. By an order lately iflued from go-
vernment, the city has been enclofed within a rampart, the circumference whereof is
twenty-one verits, or fourteen Englith miles,
The average population of Perenbureh may be collected from the lifts of births and ,
deaths during feven years.
BirTHS. DEATHS.
‘Males - 2459 Males - LIKYy;
177° Females Re she Females - 1642 4779
Pia r ; ; 4759 i F 2 A727,
Rice ipteatensonh pea ae Alam Re a hpsuGlre 10 53, 3}
ales - 2839 ales - 2899
1774 Females eet 5437 | Females - 1559 i 4458
nite Mal : : 816 pe Mal ; : 26 i
ales 281 ales : 26942,
ce Females 2581 ‘ 5397 | Females - het 4463
Natives. Natives.
Males - 2717 )} Males - 3117
Females 2618 | Females - 2043
4777 Foreigners. 5854 Foreigners. 5660
Males - 265] Males - 265
Females 254 Females - aac)
Total of births for feven years 36,672 Total of Deaths 32,105
Annual average of births, omitting fmall fraétions - 5238
of deaths - - - 4594
By multiplying the births five thoufand two hundred and thirty-eight by twenty-five,
the fum is one hundred and thirty-four thoufand nine hundred and fifty ; and the deaths
four thoufand five hundred and ninety-four by twenty-fix, the fum is one hundred and
nineteen thoufand four hundred and forty four. By taking the medium, therefore,
* And the Moika fince my departure.
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