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A northern summer: or travels round the Baltic, through Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Prussia and a part of Germany in the year 1804

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Lincoln and Gleason, 1805 - Baltic Sea Region - 480 pages

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Contents

CHAPTER II	16

CONTENTS	17

Danish character Gin Zealand Turnpike gate Mile stones	33

Fredericksborg Storks Fastidious Mares Forest laws Penalties	82

Cross the Sound Sweden Cinderellas Mice Rapid Travelling Strange	102

National welcome Brief description of Stockholm A great genins	119

A visit in the country Observatory Dinner and fashions Blooming	137

Poor posthorses Language Merry criminal Prisons Psalmsinging	175

A caution The house of Peter the Great Singular anecdote Police	276

CHAPTER XIV	302

Sir John Borlase Warren The Polignacs The parade The baneful	321

English ground in Russia National baths A new sect How customs	343

Court clock Winter palace Hermitage Players and government car	362

Applefeast Dogkillers A barrier against swindling Festivities of	381

Rising of the Neva Academy of Sciences The review Cadet corps	397

Leave Petersburg The little Swede Adventures at Strelna Narva	416

Rustic urbanity Wretched village No 1 Wibourg Greek religion	207

Advantages of the Imperial city The village architect The summer gar	224

Pedestrians how considered The scaffolding of the New Kazan church	249

Desolate scene English sailor wrecked Koningberg Beauty in boots	435

Reflections upon a stuhlwaggon Prussian villages Military manœuvres	451

Potsdam diligence Potsdam Sans Souci Voltaire and dogs of Frede	466

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A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden ...
Sir John Carr
Full view - 1806

A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden ...
Sir John Carr
Full view - 1805

A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden ...
Sir John Carr
Full view - 1805

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Bibliographic information

Title	A northern summer: or travels round the Baltic, through Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Prussia and a part of Germany in the year 1804
Author	Sir John Carr
Edition	reprint
Publisher	Lincoln and Gleason, 1805
Original from	the Bavarian State Library
Digitized	10 Mar 2010
Length	480 pages

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