Letters from the shores of the Baltic Author:Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LETTER THE SIXTEENTH. Early rising—Departure on a journey—Drive through a wild country—Diversities of taste in the situation of a residence — A Krug — Rosenth... more »al — Boulder stones — Castle Lode, and the unfortunate Princess of "Wirtera- berg—A very hard bed—Leal—An accumulation of annoyances—The Wieck, and its seashore riches— Baron Ungern Sternberg—Count and Countess , and their seat at Linden—Anecdote of Peter the Great and his friend Menschikoff—The Castle of Habsal— Dagen girl—Odd collections—Riesenberg and the Baroness S. Our journey to ... commenced on the 10th of June. At four in the morning we awoke to a sky cool as night and bright as noon, but human nature was not the less sleepy, and Sascha had alternately repeated in tones of progressive loudness " It is four of the clock— it is the fifth hour," and blurted out various adjurations in Russian, which, as they wouldinfallibly have puzzled her Barishna, or lady, when wide awake, she inversely reasoned would effectually arouse her when half asleep, before she could be prevailed upon to stir. Oh this getting up ! what a daily torment is it!—watch- ings and vigils are nothing in comparison! In vain would we run away from our sins; your sound morning sleepers are just as incorrigible in the full uncurtained blaze of a Russian June, as in the drowsy candlelight of a London November. But who calls the callers ? Here we will change the subject. Then came the hasty breakfast—the final closing of the great Speise Korb, or provision basket, on which all hopes of good cheer in this country depend—the last injunctions to the household —the last kisses to children, and off we set in an open barouche and four, well settled down in a comfortable carriage-position, and well disposed to enjoy our journey, or rather that luxuri...« less