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Latvia / THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 15, 1847 / Foreign Corn Ports - Riga |
 | | Cronstadt is situated on the island of Kotlin in the Gulf of Finland, about 20 kilometers from St. Petersburg. |
 | | Their condition, at this period, is annually a point of interest; but, at the present season of scarcity, it acquires additional importance; for, the opening of the navigation of the great rivers upon which these ports are situated, promises, this year, to be attended with unusual results. |
 | | CRONSTADT (" The Town of the Crown,") the companion subject, is a town, fortress, and port, in the Russian Government of St. Petersburg, from which city it is about thirty-one miles distant. |
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