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

Author: Bayard Taylor

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Language: English

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NORTHERN TRAVEL.

NORTHERN TRAVEL.

BAYARD TAYLOR.

[Illustration: The Voring 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 endeavoured
to give photographs, instead of diagrams, or tables of figures; and
desire only that the untravelled reader, who is interested in the
countries I visit, may find that he is able to see