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Visit to Iceland

CHAPTER X
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Of the castle of Rouse only three beautiful domes rise above the trees; a frowning bleak hill conceals the rest from the eye.

Then comes a palace, the property of a private individual, only remarkable for its size.

The last of the notabilities is the Rokeby bridge, said to be one of the longest in Sweden.

It unites the firm land with the island on which the royal castle of Drottingholm stands.

The town of Stockholm now becomes visible; we turn into the portion of the lake on which it lies, and arrive there again at two o'clock in the afternoon.
FROM STOCKHOLM TO TRAVEMUNDE AND HAMBURGH I bade farewell to Stockholm on the 18th September, and embarked in the steamer _Svithiold_, of 100-horse power, at twelve o'clock at noon, to go to Travemunde.
Few passages can be more expensive than this one is.


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