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"A Bull-dog among Spaniels""Calumet," Captain Holmes, of Baltimore, to the Black Sea.Their hope was that her neutral flag would persuade theRussians to let her buy and return to Constantinople withRussian grain, which Russian law forbade to the enemy Turk.The "Calumet" got no grain, but she did attain the honor ofbeing thefirst American vessel at Odessa and probably the firston the waters of the Black Sea.Rumor raised the number of American sail at Odessa toforty, and the French ambassador was disturbed. The Russiangovernment expressed great satisfaction with what it hopedwas the opening of a new channel of trade with the UnitedStates. The Turk, however, was refused his grain no matterwhat the nationality of the errand boy he hired, and so Constantinoplesulkily returned to the old policy of refusing Americanships entry to the Black Sea. Th e winter opening of Russo-American trade of 1810 was a false alarm. 20As spring spread north from the Black Sea and turned thesteppes green, the inhabitants of St. Petersburg began to laywagers as to the time the ice of the Neva would break, a habitthey had picked up from the English merchants. O n 12 May ,about two or three in the morning, the ice of the Nev agroaned, split, ground into blocks, and began to move towardthe sea. At three o'clock that afternoon, thefirstboat of the yearpassed the fortress with the governor aboard, and the gunsboomed. Adams was told that, as was traditional, the governorcarried a glass of water to the tsar to drink, and would receiveone hundred ducats in return.O n this day the summer season began. The double windowswere taken off the houses. The nobility and wealthier merchantsbegan to move from their town houses to their country'59