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The future historian will probably complain that the English travellers of the present generation , while they lavish the highest talents on descriptions of personal feelings or adventures , of romantic natural scenery , of striking ...
The future historian will probably complain that the English travellers of the present generation , while they lavish the highest talents on descriptions of personal feelings or adventures , of romantic natural scenery , of striking ...
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... which apparently has passed her youth in the 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 convention B 2 OBSERVATIONS IN SWEDEN . 8.
... which apparently has passed her youth in the 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 convention B 2 OBSERVATIONS IN SWEDEN . 8.
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The passengers were accommodated here with very good horses and carriages to Copenhagen , a distance of about fifty English miles over a good road . The country through which we passed is well cultivated , the fields large ...
The passengers were accommodated here with very good horses and carriages to Copenhagen , a distance of about fifty English miles over a good road . The country through which we passed is well cultivated , the fields large ...
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The screen or framework of brushwood through which the salt ley trickles , is about forty feet high , and extends almost half an English mile in length , or above 1460 yards . I found a comfortable little country inn at this place ...
The screen or framework of brushwood through which the salt ley trickles , is about forty feet high , and extends almost half an English mile in length , or above 1460 yards . I found a comfortable little country inn at this place ...
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... and body would be exactly the reverse -- three butchers ' ' shops at the least for one book or music shop . The country from the Glommen to the Wener , a distance of 98 or 100 English miles , appears to have been a chain of lakes ...
... and body would be exactly the reverse -- three butchers ' ' shops at the least for one book or music shop . The country from the Glommen to the Wener , a distance of 98 or 100 English miles , appears to have been a chain of lakes ...
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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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