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 xvii
... Copenhagen . Iceland knows of no trials by jury ; for the Judges and Assessors act both as jurors and judges . The Landfogued of Iceland is the Treasurer of the island , and to that office the one of Byefogued is generally annexed ...
... Copenhagen . Iceland knows of no trials by jury ; for the Judges and Assessors act both as jurors and judges . The Landfogued of Iceland is the Treasurer of the island , and to that office the one of Byefogued is generally annexed ...
Page xxvii
... Copenhagen for the purpose of giving the necessary instructions to the rest ; but her salary of one hundred dollars per annum is too small to enable her to take long journies , or to do any effectual good . The other nineteen receive al ...
... Copenhagen for the purpose of giving the necessary instructions to the rest ; but her salary of one hundred dollars per annum is too small to enable her to take long journies , or to do any effectual good . The other nineteen receive al ...
Page xxix
... Copenhagen . Account of Salaries and Pensions paid yearly in Iceland by the Landfogued , Frydensberg . SALARIES . From the Jordebog's Casse . The Stiftsamptman's regular pay .... Deduction Rank - tax deducted 13 Rdr . 1200 Sk . Rdr . Sk ...
... Copenhagen . Account of Salaries and Pensions paid yearly in Iceland by the Landfogued , Frydensberg . SALARIES . From the Jordebog's Casse . The Stiftsamptman's regular pay .... Deduction Rank - tax deducted 13 Rdr . 1200 Sk . Rdr . Sk ...
Page 23
... been brought up , in the capacity of a servant , in the king's palace , at Copenhagen , she thought herself of more con- sequence than most ladies of her profession would do in any other country ; and , although so REIKEVIG . 23.
... been brought up , in the capacity of a servant , in the king's palace , at Copenhagen , she thought herself of more con- sequence than most ladies of her profession would do in any other country ; and , although so REIKEVIG . 23.
Page 38
... Copenhagen last spring . Of this work he very kindly presented me with a copy for myself , and also one for Mr. Turner , with whose Historia Fucorum ( as far at least as was then published ) he was not unacquainted . The number of quo ...
... Copenhagen last spring . Of this work he very kindly presented me with a copy for myself , and also one for Mr. Turner , with whose Historia Fucorum ( as far at least as was then published ) he was not unacquainted . The number of quo ...
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