Northern Travel: Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland

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NORTHERN TRAVEL.
NORTHERN TRAVEL.
BAYARD TAYLOR.
The Vöring Foss.
The Vöring Foss.
NEW YORK : G. P. PUTNAM.
1859.

NORTHERN TRAVEL:
Summer and Winter Pictures
OF
SWEDEN, DENMARK AND LAPLAND,
BY
BAYARD TAYLOR.
NEW YORK :
G. P. PUTNAM, 115 NASSAU-STREET.

1859.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by

G. P. Putnam,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New

York.

PREFACE.

This book requires no further words of introduction than those with which I have prefaced former volumes—that my object in travel is neither scientific, statistical, nor politico-economical; but simply artistic, pictorial,—if possible, panoramic. I have attempted to draw, with a hand which, I hope, has acquired a little steadiness from long practice, the people and the scenery of Northern Europe, to colour my sketches with the tints of the originals, and to invest each one with its native and characteristic atmosphere. In order to do this, I have adopted, as in other countries, a simple rule: to live, as near as possible, the life of the people among whom I travel. The history of Sweden and Norway, their forms of Government, commerce, productive industry, political condition, geology, botany, and agriculture, can be found in other works, and I have only touched upon such subjects where it was necessary to give completeness to my pictures. I have

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