This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ... hereabouts also, imbedded in rocks, and backed by hills covered with dense pineforests, was the little town of Kongelf, celebrated, if I am not mistaken, for nothing more formidable than its spice-bread or ginger-bread. At a posting station in this vicinity Herr M. purchased a lump of this bread, which clesely ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ... hereabouts also, imbedded in rocks, and backed by hills covered with dense pineforests, was the little town of Kongelf, celebrated, if I am not mistaken, for nothing more formidable than its spice-bread or ginger-bread. At a posting station in this vicinity Herr M. purchased a lump of this bread, which clesely resembled in taste the pain-cPepice of childhood, sold at the various fairs of France, and at the ducasses of the villages. A curious compound this, that gets better the longer it is kept, according to the old French gossips, who tell wonderful stories of the number of years it will keep pure; but I never saw the child who gave it the chance of proving these marvellous powers of self-preservation. But gingerbread eaten after sunset, with the thermometer a few degrees below freezing-point, in a jclting carriage that compels you to dodge your mouth, is not a happy species of refreshment. By the way, before the sun went down on this day, we passed a Swedish speculator in pork, who was conveying his venture to Gottenburg, upon a sledge, in the following manner. He was droning a song as he passed us--a monotonous, grumbling air. I remember that I envied him his active limbs, and his apparent contempt for the cold. / was beginning to feel it in earnest. Not that damp shivering sensation which we know as coldness in England, but a piercing, uncompromising cold, that seemed to benumb the limbs to the marrow of them: --that was not painful, but particularly unpleasant. The air was very elear, the stars bright as diamonds--there was not a breath of wind. Every time I opened my mouth for an instant, I seemed to inhale an icicle, and my teeth were chilled terribly; sneezing, under the stiff circumstances of my face, would, I am eertain, have been a physical impos..
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