[Visit to Iceland by Ida Pfeiffer]@TWC D-Link bookVisit to Iceland CHAPTER XI 43/98
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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