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Visit to Iceland

CHAPTER VIII
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The carts for the transport of these bottles consist of roomy covered boxes a foot and a half high, which are divided into partitions like a cellaret, in which many bottles can be easily and safely transported from one part to another.
Another species of basket, which the servants use to carry such articles as are damp or dirty, and which my readers will excuse my describing, is made of fine white tin, and provided with a handle.

Straw baskets are only used for bread, and for dry and clean provisions.
There are no public gardens or assemblies in Christiania, but numerous promenades; indeed, every road from the town leads to the most beautiful scenery, and every hill in the neighbourhood affords the most delightful prospects.
Ladegardoen is the only spot which is often resorted to by the citizens by carriage or on foot.

It affords many and splendid views of the sea and its islands, of the surrounding mountains, valleys, and pine and fir groves.

The majority of the country-houses are built here.

They are generally small, but pretty, and surrounded by flower-gardens and orchards.


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