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Visit to Iceland

CHAPTER XI
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Sanguisorba officinalis.

Geum rivale.

Dryas octopela (near Havenfiord).
_Papilionaceae_.

Trifolium repens.
FOOTNOTES: {1} In this Gutenberg eText only Madame Pfeiffer's work appears--DP.
{2} Madame Pfeiffer's first journey was to the Holy Land in 1842; and on her return from Iceland she started in 1846 on a "Journey round the World," from which she returned in the end of 1848.

This adventurous lady is now (1853) travelling among the islands of the Eastern Archipelago.
{3} A florin is worth about 2_s._ 1_d._; sixty kreutzers go to a florin.
{4} At Kuttenberg the first silver groschens were coined, in the year 1300.


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