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Title: Zigzag journeys in northwest lands. The Rhine to the Arctic
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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travel and history was continued byMr. Beal. Strange is the evolution of cities. We are about to glance at Stockholm. Letus go back in imagination six hundred years. There are some rocky islands in the Baltic, at the foot of thenorthern peninsula. Sea birds wheel above them in the steel-grayair; they build their nests there. Storms sweep over these lonelyislands; sunlight bursts upon them, and now and then a Vikings shipfinds a haven among them, and scares away the birds. Years pass. Fishermen build huts on the islands. Hunterscome there. There come also the sea kings. A mixed, strangepeople. They build a village on the holms, or islets. They defend them-selves with stockades, and they found on stocks, or beams, their stronghouses. The growing town rises from stock holms ; hence, Stock-holm. The years pass, and the sea birds fly away. There are .wings ofgables where once were wings of birds. Stockholm becomes a for-tress, and, as in the case of St. Petersburg in recent times, the sea
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GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS. NORWAY. 291 desolation pulses with life and energy, and is transformed into a city.Churches, palaces, gardens, arise. Battles are fought, and here treadthe feet of kings. The wonder grows. The birds scream far away now. Theislands are spanned by bridges. Stockholm stands a splendid city,one of the crowns of earth. The city lies before us. Noble structures, villas, steeples, are seenamong the green trees. The ships of many flags lie together like atown in the sea. It is sunset. The tops of the linden-trees are crowned with sun-light, the Gothic windows burn. A shadow falls from the gray sky.Afar fly the white sea-gulls. The shadow deepens. It is night. Weare in Stockholm. Every nation has its hero. You have been told how that poor Louis le Debonnaire, the sonof Charlemagne, preferred to win crowns for Christs kingdom ratherthan for his own. He lost his own kingdom ; but the missionaries hesent forth, though at first not successful, were the means of givingChristianit

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