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The Rambles of Redbury Rook; Or, a Caution to His Own Species How They Embrace the Profession of Arms, by the Author of the Subaltern Officer
The Rambles of Redbury Rook Or a Caution to His Own Species How They Embrace the Profession of Arms by the Author of the Subaltern Officer Author:George Wood General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1826 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. Commences las enterprise. -- Arrives at St. Pctersburgh. -- Visits Moscow. -- Skims over the country of the Cossacks, and through the deserts of Siberia. -- Reaches the province of Kamschatka, where he falls in with the most northerly Rookery in Europe: here his plumage becomes quite white. -- He explores the kingdom of the Liliputians, and that of a people much more diminutive. -- Is enveloped in a snow-storm, and driven back to Copper-mine River. -- Traverses the Frozen Ocean, and falls in with his Majesty's ship Hecla: is fired at by the crew, and winged. -- He encounters wonderful difficulties, and unheard-of privations ; and at length perches on the top of the North Pole. -- He perseveres in his course; and, after unparalleled sufferings and wanderings, once more reaches terra firma. Fanning my airy way in execution of this great project, with the wind in my favour, I passed over a most delightful and picturesque country, leaving behind me many states and provinces, until, at the conclusion of the first day's journey, I found myself on the right bank of the broad and rapid Rhine. On the followingday I arrived in the environs of St. Petersburgh, which I record as the next stage of my progress, without deeming it necessary to notice even the names of subordinate places, in the line of my flight. After so much exertion, 1 thought proper to repose my pinions for some time. The gentry of my feather, resident near the despotic Court of Russia, regarded me with a jealous eye, and demanded what I wanted among them; but on learning that my purpose was to wander in search of unknown climes, ...« less