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Page 17 - TRAVELLER'S COMPANION. Containing an Introduction to French Pronunciation; a Copious Vocabulary; a very complete Series of Dialogues on Topics of Every-day Life ; Dialogues on the Principal Continental Tours, and on the Objects of Interest in Paris; with Models of Epistolary Correspondence.
Page 19 - REVIEWS, with copious extracts, of every important New English Book, and of the more important Foreign Works. REPORTS of the Proceedings of the Learned and Scientific Societies, with Abstracts of all Papers of Interest. AUTHENTIC ACCOUNTS of all Scientific Voyages and Expeditions.
Page 201 - ... were now added our party, consisting of four Englishmen, their two interpreters, and two other attendants. The tent was made of coarse dark cloth, and the outside of it was covered with turf; around the inside were hung cheeses, bladders, dried gut of reindeer, guns, and various other useful articles. The chief part of the smoke escaped through a large opening at the top, but enough remained painfully to affect our eyes, and to give the copper countenances of the Lapps a shade as dark as those...
Page 17 - NEW FRENCH MANUAL and TRAVELLER'S COMPANION ; containing an Introduction to French Pronunciation ; a copious Vocabulary ; a Selection of Phrases ; a Series of Conversations on Tours through France, Holland, Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland ; with a Description of the Public Buildings, Institutions, Curiosities Manners, and Amusements, of the French Capital, &c.
Page 201 - The chief part of the smoke escaped through a largo opening at the top, but enough remained painfully to affect our eyes, and to give the copper countenances of the Lapps a shade as dark as those of Indians. The second family, who occupied the smaller tent, consisted of our late guide, Peter Johansen, his wife, and two children ; they soon came to pay us a visit. His wife and daughter had light hair and fair complexions, and were pleasing in appearance. His son, a fine intelligent boy, although under...
Page 36 - Any distance within the town costs about 8d., and if hired by the hour the charge is 1*. 6d. The gates of Hamburg are shut every evening at dusk, and a toll, increasing progressively every hour till 12, is demanded, after which persons may pass and repass all through the night, upon payment of 1 mark each. All eatables brought into the town are taxed at the gates, and even private carriages are sometimes searched, and game found in them has been seized.
Page 203 - ... horns into spoons and other domestic utensils, and its skin furnishes the main portion of the Lapp's dress. This animal bears a great resemblance to the stag, but is rather smaller. The females are driven home morning and evening to be milked, and yield about the same quantity as a she-goat. The reindeer moss grows almost everywhere upon these mountains in great abundance; this vegetable, which, after a long continuance of heat and drought, appears withered and dead, immediately recovers new...
Page 180 - They are doubtless interesting to mineralugists; but we did not visit them. The guide-book says, "The principal entrance to the mines is through a level nearly two English miles in length ; from this level you descend by thirty-eight perpendicular ladders, of the average length of five fathoms each, a very fatiguing task, and then find yourself at the bottom of the shaft, and are rewarded by the sight of the veins of native silver"—not a bit of which, after all, are you allowed to put into your...
Page 205 - Hestmandsœn (Horseman's Island), it has the appearance of a huge man on horseback swimming through the water. The coast is here of the wildest description; precipitous mountains piled upon each other in every variety of form, with their hundred snow-capped peaks; "a correct picture of it would appear to be anything but the representation of sober reality.
Page 291 - God, and for our souls' behoof, and for that we would not that this holy book should longer abide in heathenesse ; and now will we give it to Christ's Church, God to praise, and glory, and worship, in thankful remembrance of his passion, and for the use of the holy brotherhood, who in Christ's Church do daily...