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 xli
... my readers to the first volume of Percy's Northern Antiquities for much more interesting information on this subject . * Voyage en Islande . 1 fasten burthens upon their horses , and they forge iron INTRODUCTION . xli.
... my readers to the first volume of Percy's Northern Antiquities for much more interesting information on this subject . * Voyage en Islande . 1 fasten burthens upon their horses , and they forge iron INTRODUCTION . xli.
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... of the prevalency of the Popish religion * , a large building was appropriated , at each of the episcopal sees , for the purpose of laying by a * Voyage en Islande . store of this butter , which was packed down in INTRODUCTION . xliii.
... of the prevalency of the Popish religion * , a large building was appropriated , at each of the episcopal sees , for the purpose of laying by a * Voyage en Islande . store of this butter , which was packed down in INTRODUCTION . xliii.
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... remarkable in their form . Se- pulchral monuments , consisting of heaps of stones , resembling the cairns of Wales and Scot- * Voyage en Islande . land are scattered in small quantities over the island . INTRODUCTION . li.
... remarkable in their form . Se- pulchral monuments , consisting of heaps of stones , resembling the cairns of Wales and Scot- * Voyage en Islande . land are scattered in small quantities over the island . INTRODUCTION . li.
Page lv
... or second year . What makes this period so peculiarly fatal , is the custom that prevails among the women of not suckling their infants at all or at * Voyage en Islande . most only for a few days , after which they INTRODUCTION . lv.
... or second year . What makes this period so peculiarly fatal , is the custom that prevails among the women of not suckling their infants at all or at * Voyage en Islande . most only for a few days , after which they INTRODUCTION . lv.
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... water in the neighbourhood of the sea was frozen an inch and half in thickness . Ice - islands in the years 1615 , 1639 , 1683 , and 1695 came round to the * Voyage en Islande . south coast , which is by no means an usual INTRODUCTION .
... water in the neighbourhood of the sea was frozen an inch and half in thickness . Ice - islands in the years 1615 , 1639 , 1683 , and 1695 came round to the * Voyage en Islande . south coast , which is by no means an usual INTRODUCTION .
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