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There are twenty-four professors, and the number of students is between four and five hundred .-- ED. {55} See novel of _Ivar_, _the Skjuts Boy_, by Miss Emilie Carlen. {56} At Calmar was concluded, in 1397, the famous treaty which bears its name, by which Denmark, Sweden, and Norway were united under one crown, that crown placed nominally on the head of Eric Duke of Pomerania, but virtually on that of his aunt Margaret, who has received the name of "the Semiramis of the North." -- ED. {57} There is now a railway direct from Hamburgh to Berlin .-- ED. {58} A florin is about two shillings sterling .-- _Tr._ {59} Herr T.Scheffer of Modling, near Vienna, gives the following characteristic of this new dipteral animal, which belongs to the family muscidae, and resembles the species borborus: _Antennae_ deflexae, breves, triarticulatae, articulo ultimo phoereco; seda nuda. _Hypoctoma_ subprominulum, fronte lata, setosa.
_Oculi_ rotundi, remoti. Abdomen quinque annulatum, dorso nudo.
_Tarsi_ simplices.
_Alae_ incumbentes, abdomine longiores, nervo primo simplici. Niger, abdomine nitido, antennis pedibusque rufopiceis. ***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VISIT TO ICELAND*** ******* This file should be named 1894.txt or 1894.zip ******* This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/8/9/1894 Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be renamed. Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission and without paying copyright royalties.
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