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REPLY1850

JULIN, THE DROWNED CITY.

By WILLIAM BELL, Phil. D.

I regret that my questioner V., from Belgravia (Vol. ii., p. 379.), should have felt aggrieved that, upon his request for my story, I should have been compelled to reply, in the words of the Ancient Mariner: "Story! bless you, sir, I have none to tell." As he seems, however, so assured that some account of the destruction of a city of such opulence and renown as Vineta *must* exist, I shall be extremely happy to learn it from him. I can assure my friend V. that neither Kanzow nor Micrœlius (who has, however, a plan of the stone pavement of its streets at the bottom of the Baltic), nor Giesebre…

Topics: Destruction of Cities, Historical Ports, Maritime Law, Northern Histories

Locations: Belgravia, Vineta, Baltic, Ravenspur, Humber, Spurn, Stony Binks, Wisby, Gothland, Sweden, Pomerania, Acquitanian Islands, Re, Oleron, England