Show I 1 A modern modem russian CRY city odessa adessa has assumed a world worl d wide impo importance r since its bombardment by the french and english fleet every newspaper reader desires to know something of the town A paper in new york th the courrier supplies ies that tha t omis omission the courrier Coar rier remarks that that odessa is ia of recent origin having I 1 been founded in 1794 by admiral bib bibas asa a neapolitan in the service vice of russia catharine bathanne Cat hanne the second consulted the academy 0 of f st petersburg in reference to a name and odessa was chosen in honor of the ancien anci ent t greek colony of odyssus Odys sos in 1797 it contained inhabitants and now dow rising of it was wa 8 declared a free port in 1802 the city is situated on an elevated plain whose base is ched washed by i the sea from its elevated site it comman commands ds an extensive bay bai the port is formed by three moles which divide it into as many basins tha port being open from the N E to the S E i is s not safe in the stormy season the anchorage appropriate to the qua quarantine will hold I 1 the city is large and well built its streets are broad and regularly laid out it contains a citadel an imperial lyceum an in 1 young ladies of noble birth and an italian opera house situated on a fin fine e square which overlooks the sea its principal cipal street called after thie the duke de richelieu a banished french nobleman who for many years avas was governor odthe city is filled on each side with bleg elegant nt stores this street is terminated by a square cabled the palaia royal a small edition of that ot of paris which is surrounded by rich shops belonging to the jews one of the marvels of odessa is the beautiful terrace planted with trees and overlooking a bank of some twenty five feet elevation above the sea on this place are the most moat elegant structures monuments hotels and costly drebing ino F among which the sumptuous palace of princess is on conspicuous n i caloust and which equals in magnificence i th the most luxurious palaces of fran france ce A large portion I 1 of these are built of out cut stone a ase f ful ul precaution against fire so frequent in i these countries but stone dwellings here as in in the east are 0 ofte aw reat luau ry rv for russia has few marries the trees upon the terrace teace are a conquest of the city over a sandy soil so exposed to 1 the wind that neither in summer nor even in winter when the port is covered with ice can one venture out without being covered ereda with th dusts this peculiar feature in the climate and soil of odessa is such that at the di distance of near forty miles no kind of tree or shrub h has existed from time im fan 1 memorial but a french horticulturist after many fruitless defor ts succeeded by airet dint of pre severance in acclimating the that is the only tree which at the present time is able to resist the saud sand and the dead ly winds of that country A small acacia grove situated not far from the city now affords the inhabitants a feeble shade to protect them from the heat of a scorching sun during the month of INI march arch but still it is said the grain flourishes marvellously in this dry soil and one often sees within seventy five to one hundred miles from odessa immense fields of ripe grain going go ing to waste for want of labor to harvest it or means to transport it there being neither roads across the steppes nor other means of communication muni carion cation but the country is so vast and productive in cereals that notwithstanding these disadvantages the grain trade of 0 dessa is daily increasing the coast of the black sep sea near the city is bordered with delic delicious ions villas |