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Page 33
... dollars . Bedsteads are universally used in Norway by the poorest people . They are clumsy , to be sure , not unlike seamen's chests in shape , but still they are moveables having a value as furniture . They are taken out to the green ...
... dollars . Bedsteads are universally used in Norway by the poorest people . They are clumsy , to be sure , not unlike seamen's chests in shape , but still they are moveables having a value as furniture . They are taken out to the green ...
Page 40
... dollar banco , or about 7d . sterling for the Swedish mile , equal to seven English . This is one third less than is paid in Norway for the same distance but neither rate can indemnify the husbandman for the loss of a day's work of ...
... dollar banco , or about 7d . sterling for the Swedish mile , equal to seven English . This is one third less than is paid in Norway for the same distance but neither rate can indemnify the husbandman for the loss of a day's work of ...
Page 60
... dollars each regiment ; but then the expense to each district , for equipping and supporting these troops with land , houses , and assistance , when not on pay , is estimated to amount to about 85,500 banco dollars per regi- ment . Thus ...
... dollars each regiment ; but then the expense to each district , for equipping and supporting these troops with land , houses , and assistance , when not on pay , is estimated to amount to about 85,500 banco dollars per regi- ment . Thus ...
Page 68
... dollars banco , or about seventeen shillings per week , which is dearer than the rate in most conti- nental towns . The furniture , paper , and such things in the houses I saw , are flashy , as we would call it , but not substantial ...
... dollars banco , or about seventeen shillings per week , which is dearer than the rate in most conti- nental towns . The furniture , paper , and such things in the houses I saw , are flashy , as we would call it , but not substantial ...
Page 103
... dollars . The sup- pressed paper appears within half an hour with a trifling alteration in the title . The Aftonblad ( evening sheet ) has been suppressed by govern- ment twenty - four times , and now appears under the title of the ...
... dollars . The sup- pressed paper appears within half an hour with a trifling alteration in the title . The Aftonblad ( evening sheet ) has been suppressed by govern- ment twenty - four times , and now appears under the title of 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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