Show where cheri is Bomar i our oui readers will enquin enquire e after reading the warlike opera operations tion a 4 1 in 1 a the baltic and the capture of this fortress I 1 between sweden and finland about midway in the gulf of a cluster of islands some inhabited b and some not numbering two or three hundred called aland islands the mein main one bearing diw he bame same name dame has some nine thousand inhabitants inhabitant si and is 40 miles long r by 30 broad in 1809 these islands wea were made over ver to russia by sweden and here iu in finek fined harb OTSy where the nav ignation i on re remains nai alls open lute late and the ice breaks up tat early 1 y i is th the p principal r rendezvous of bf russian fleets on kiil this largest island stands tile the fortress of bo marsund aarsund mar sund of this fortress the london times I 1 pays it has been constructed by the russians within the last 20 years the fortress itself is suid said to be large enough to shelter an army of men within the range of its guns and we are assured that laborers wera were employed in the con Bt st ruction of the works during daring that portion of the year when it is possible to build in so severe a climate tile the principal fortress consists of a double tier of semicircular batteries fronting the rim sa mounting at least 80 heavy guns gone but this I 1 I 1 fort d does 0 esert aaa appear ap pp ar to be armed on the side of the la land ad A at t a distance enuce of about abou t 1000 yards from the pAi principal cipal fortress for treas 1 1 and from the shore are three iti mounds or hillocks hillock rf tco of which are fortified as detached works mount mounting fig about SO 20 guns each that to the borth fa called fort lottich Not tich and is feet high that to the south is called calle tzee fort The central mound i is used for a telegraph station ta tion cleveland herald aera ld I 1 |