CRONSTADT: ITS FORTIFICATIONS
... IN describing the accompanying sketches of this celebrated Russian stronghold, we beg to be understood, by, our readers as treating it entirely in a warlike point of view, and speak- ing of it more for its renown as an impreg- nable and unapproachable fortified island, than for its commercial or architectural re- nown, which, in the present crisis, are looked upon quite as secondary items in ...