Zigzag journeys in northwest lands. The Rhine to the Arctic (1884) (14583105770)

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Title: Zigzag journeys in northwest lands. The Rhine to the Arctic

Year: 1884 (1880s)

Authors: Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905. (from old catalog)

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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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come into view. The University nextappears, like a palace; then a palace indeed, red like the houses;then the gabled town. We went to the church, and were conducted into a vaulted cham-ber where were crowns and sceptres taken from the coffins of deadkings. We wandered along the aisle after leaving the treasure-roomof the dead, and gazed on cold tombs and dusty frescos. Here sleeps Gustavus Vasa. In the centre aisle, under a flat stone, lies the great botanist,Linnaeus. We visited the garden of Linnaeus, or the place where it oncebore the blossoms and fruits of the world. Nettles were there; theorangeries were gone; the winter garden had . disappeared. Theplace wore a desolate look; the master had departed, leaving littlethere but the ghost of a great memory. We left Stockholm for Norway. We were landed from the steamer at Christiansand. This sea-port is a rude town, and except from the wild, strange expression ofboth land and sea, which affects one gloomily, yet with a kind of poetic

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CASCADE IN NORWAY. AOR WAY. :99 sadness, revealed little to interest us or to remember. There was aLazaretto, or pest-house, on a high rock, from which we felt sure thatno disease would ever be communicated.

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