The Neva, which comes sweeping with such resistless force swiftly through the city, is fed by that vast body of water Lake ladoga, covering an area of over six thousand square miles at a level of about sixty feet above the sea.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
The sea-fish and the beds of shell found in Lake ladoga show that it must once have been a gulf of the Baltic.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
For the stupendous distance of the latter place from civilisation surrounds it with even more gloom and mystery than the Russian Bastille on Lake ladoga, which is the most dreaded prison of all.
"From Paris to New York by Land"
Harry de Windt