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... English travellers of the present generation , while they lavish the highest talents on descriptions of personal feelings or adventures , of romantic na- tural scenery , of striking objects in the sciences or fine arts , have left few ...
... English travellers of the present generation , while they lavish the highest talents on descriptions of personal feelings or adventures , of romantic na- tural scenery , of striking objects in the sciences or fine arts , have left few ...
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... English revenue service , as she has an English name , and levying a duty upon all goods passing up and down , in direct contravention of the con- B 2 OBSERVATIONS IN SWEDEN . 8.
... English revenue service , as she has an English name , and levying a duty upon all goods passing up and down , in direct contravention of the con- B 2 OBSERVATIONS IN SWEDEN . 8.
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... English miles over a good road . The country through which we passed is well cultivated , the fields large , and be- longing apparently to farms of considerable extent ; but no regular course of crops is kept , at least no distinct ...
... English miles over a good road . The country through which we passed is well cultivated , the fields large , and be- longing apparently to farms of considerable extent ; but no regular course of crops is kept , at least no distinct ...
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... English mile in length , or above 1460 yards . I found a comfortable little country inn at this place , and proceeded next day to Holmestrand , a small town very romantically situated at the foot of a remarkable cliff of basaltic rock ...
... English mile in length , or above 1460 yards . I found a comfortable little country inn at this place , and proceeded next day to Holmestrand , a small town very romantically situated at the foot of a remarkable cliff of basaltic rock ...
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... English miles , appears to have been a chain of lakes , of which the former islands are the present unconnected eminences of primary rock , granite , gneiss , or porphyry , and the bottoms , those cultivated valleys , from which the ...
... English miles , appears to have been a chain of lakes , of which the former islands are the present unconnected eminences of primary rock , granite , gneiss , or porphyry , and the bottoms , those cultivated valleys , from which the ...
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| Title | A Tour in Sweden in 1838: Comprising Observations on the Moral, Political, and Economical State of the Swedish Nation Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature 1450-1850 Making of the modern economy |
| Author | Samuel Laing |
| Publisher | Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1839 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 May 2008 |
| Length | 431 pages |
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