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Observations made on a tour from Hamburg, through Berlin, Gorlitz and Breslau, to Silberberg, and thence to Gottenburg

Robert Semple · 1814 · Scanned text

45,279 words · about 3 h 10 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: PDM · British Library Digitised Books dataset db14 (doi 10.21250/db14) marks the OCR texts CC Public Domain Mark 1.0 (c. 1510-c. 1900 publications); text+metadata JSONL release doi 10.23636/r7w6-zy15 is CC0 1.0. Public Domain Mark is a status label, not a new copyright licence. · Digitised by the British Library (with Microsoft). Text: British Library Digitised Books, CC Public Domain Mark 1.0.

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About this book

Author
Robert Semple
Language
English
Published
1814
Length
45,279 words · about 3 h 10 min
Sections
3 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public Domain Mark 1.0

 

Contents (3)
  1. Preface under 1 min
  2. Chapter I about 3 h 6 min
  3. Appendix about 3 min

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Preface

. X HE narrative contained in the following pages would never have seen the light, but for a circumstance which forms the prominent incident in it, and the publication of which I conceived due to my own character. The track over which I travelled includes an important part of Germany, between the Elbe and the Oder, and extends through a small portion of Sweden, contiguous to the Sound and the Cattegat. The j>erio'd was interesting, even during the suspension of arms. The stillness which precedes the con flict of the elements is sometimes more aw ful than the storm itself. A CONTENTS.

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