CHAPTER X.
1873 SECOND EUROPEAN TOUR--RUSSIA--FRANCES POWER COBBE--"THE GLASGOW COLLEGE FOR GIRLS" In 1873, Miss Mitchell spent the summer in Europe, and availed herself of this opportunity to visit the government observatory at Pulkova, in Russia.
"Eydkuhnen, Wednesday, July 30, 1873.

Certainly, I never in my life expected to spend twenty-four hours in this small town, the frontier town of Prussia.

Here I remembered that our little bags would be examined, and I asked the guard about it, but he said we need not trouble ourselves; we should not be examined until we reached the first Russian town of Wiersbelow.

So, after a mile more of travel, we came to Wiersbelow.

Knowing that we should keep our little compartment until we got to St.Petersburg, we had scattered our luggage about; gloves were in one place, veil in another, shawl in another, parasol in another, and books all around.
"The train stopped.