Journal of a Tour in Iceland in the Summer of 1809The Journal includes images of traditional Icelandic dress and natural landmarks. Paying particular attention to political structures and religious institutions, Hooker includes intricate tables of how tax dollars were spent, how hospitals and schools were run and more. As an academic botanist by trade, his journal entries describe the flora of the country; plants collected by Hooker on this trip were lost in a fire on the return voyage. |
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Page xxv
... fifty - three rix - dollars . There are no hospitals throughout Iceland of any sort ; that which formerly existed at Guver- næs having been dissolved , from being considered too burthensome an institution , and the poor wretches sent to ...
... fifty - three rix - dollars . There are no hospitals throughout Iceland of any sort ; that which formerly existed at Guver- næs having been dissolved , from being considered too burthensome an institution , and the poor wretches sent to ...
Page xxvi
... fifty rix - dollars . To judge from all this , it might be concluded that Iceland is singularly salubrious , but , on the contrary , in no country is medical attendance more necessary than here , where the greater part of the inhabi ...
... fifty rix - dollars . To judge from all this , it might be concluded that Iceland is singularly salubrious , but , on the contrary , in no country is medical attendance more necessary than here , where the greater part of the inhabi ...
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... fifty miles . On the highest ridge of these moun- tains were some huge angular and projecting pre- cipices , which cast a deep shadow on the white snow , when the early rays of the sun were striking upon them , breaking the uniformity ...
... fifty miles . On the highest ridge of these moun- tains were some huge angular and projecting pre- cipices , which cast a deep shadow on the white snow , when the early rays of the sun were striking upon them , breaking the uniformity ...
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... fifty , she was a constant visitor at the Iceland balls , and , at a reel , would dance the very fidler out of patience . This was almost the last house in the south - western angle . If two lines were drawn from the points of these two ...
... fifty , she was a constant visitor at the Iceland balls , and , at a reel , would dance the very fidler out of patience . This was almost the last house in the south - western angle . If two lines were drawn from the points of these two ...
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... fifty years that he was in office . It is considered worth one hundred dollars ( twenty pounds ) a - year , in addition to which , the full pension of fifteen hundred dollars is continued to him , as if he were still actual governor ...
... fifty years that he was in office . It is considered worth one hundred dollars ( twenty pounds ) a - year , in addition to which , the full pension of fifteen hundred dollars is continued to him , as if he were still actual governor ...
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