Transcriber's Note
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Errata listed on Page viii have been corrected in the text.
A
YACHT VOYAGE
TO
NORWAY,
DENMARK, AND SWEDEN.
BY
W. A. ROSS, ESQ.
Ver erat: errabam: Zephyrus conspexit: abibam:
Insequitur: fugio.
Ovid. Fast., Lib. v.
Second Edition.
LONDON:
HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER,
GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.
1849.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY T. R. HARRISON,
ST. MARTIN'S LANE.
TO
AN AMIABLE AND A GENEROUS FRIEND,
ROBERT, LORD RODNEY,
I DEDICATE THIS VOLUME,
IN TOKEN
OF ADMIRATION, GRATITUDE,
AND
AFFECTION.
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. | |
| Departure from Greenwich—The History of the Iris Yacht—Sheerness—Harwich—Under Weigh—The North Sea—Sail in Sight—The Mail Overboard—Speaking the Norwegian | 1 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Foggy Weather—First View of Norway—Christiansand Fiord—Arrival at Christiansand—Description of the Town—The Toptdal River—Excursion Inland—The Enthusiastic Angler—Rustic Lodgings—Hunting the Bear—The Trap—The Death—Norwegian Liberality | 13 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| Departure from Christiansand—The Pilot's Pram—Skaw Point—Delinquencies of Jacko—Expensive Cannonading—Elsineur—Hamlet's Walk—The Minister, Struensee—Story of Queen Caroline-Matilda—Legend of the Serf | 46 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| The Pilot—Tempestuous Weather—Distant View of Copenhagen—Lord Nelson—The Battle of the Baltic—The Harbour-Master—Interest excited by the Yacht's Arrival—The Artist—The Angler—We go Ashore | 58 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
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