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Ida Pfeiffer. Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North
Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
PRAGUE
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
EXCURSION TO VIDÖE
SALMON FISHERY
THE SULPHUR-SPRINGS AND SULPHUR-MOUNTAINS OF KRISUVIK
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
DEPARTURE FROM ICELAND.—JOURNEY TO COPENHAGEN
DEPARTURE FROM COPENHAGEN.—CHRISTIANIA
CHAPTER VIII
JOURNEY TO DELEMARKEN
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
EXCURSION TO THE OLD ROYAL CASTLE OF GRIPTHOLM ON THE MALARSEE
JOURNEY FROM STOCKHOLM TO UPSALA AND TO THE IRON-MINES OF DANEMORA
FROM STOCKHOLM TO TRAVEMUNDE AND HAMBURGH
CHAPTER XI
STAY IN BERLIN—RETURN TO VIENNA
CHARLOTTENBURG
POTSDAM
APPENDIX A
Salaries of the Royal Danish Officials in Iceland, which they receive from the Icelandic land-revenues
LIST OF INVERTEBRATED ANIMALS collected in Iceland
LIST OF ICELANDIC PLANTS collected by Ida Pfeiffer in the Summer of the year 1845
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Ida Pfeiffer
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Let any one fancy an excursion amidst 900 ships, great and small, which lined both shores of the Elbe in tiers of three deep or more; the passing to and fro of countless boats busily employed in loading or unloading these vessels; these things, together with the shouting and singing of the sailors, the rattling of anchors which are being weighed, and the rush and swell of passing steamers, combine to constitute a picture not to be surpassed in any city except in that metropolis of the world, London. [12]
The reason of this unusual activity in the harbour lay in the severity of the past winter. Such a winter had not been experienced for seventy years: the Elbe and the Baltic lay for months in icy chains, and not a ship could traverse the frozen river, not an anchor could be weighed or lowered. It was only a short time before my arrival that the passage had once more become free.
