Identifier: 02145706.5485.emory.edu
Title: Norway, Sweden, and Denmark: with excursions to Iceland and Spitzbergen ; handbook for travellers
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipzig : K. Baedeker London : Dulau and Co. New York : C. Scribner's Sons
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,cranes, wood-grouse, wood-pigeons, otters, ospreys, hawks, falcons,ravens, owls, and ptarmigan. Then the Royal Eagles Cage and theMalmberg, with specimens of minerals. Farther N., passing theBears Dens (PI. 19, 20), we come to the Wolves and the Gluttons(PI. 21, 22). — Returning past the bears we ascend to the outlook-tower of — *Bbedaelick (adm. 25 6.). Near it are a good cafe and thewinter restaurant of Hoganloft (no fees). On the 2nd floor is a col-lection of clocks, guild-insignia, and postage-stamps. The viewfrom the upper platform (246 ft.) is one of the finest in Stockholm,embracing the extensive city with its towers and domes, the grandPalace, the green Djurgard, and the bays of the Saltsjo. — To theE. of the Bredablick is an exit near the Horticultural Societysgarden (see below). In the S.E. part of Skansen is the Laxbrostuga (106.), the houseof a Dalar mine-owner and merchant, whose wife was Dutch (endof 17th cent.); E. of it is Svedenborgs Paviljon, with memorials of
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VI. Djurgarden. STOCKHOLM. 50. Route. 339 the philosopher and mystic Eman. Swedenborg (1689-1772). Tothe S. are the Oktopsgard, a large thatched farmhouse from Halland,the Hornbogastuga, from W. Gotland, with a Kvarn or mill near it,and then the Hellestadstapel, a tall belfry (view; 10o.). Near thisit the tomb of Hazelius (p. 333). — From the Oktopsgard we go N.to the Kyrkhultstuga (from Blekinge) on the margin of the wood,and pass between the two lakes. On an island to the left is a sacri-ficial and burial place of the heathen Lapps. Beyond the Dansplan(see below) we reach the Bollnasstuga, 16th cent., brought fromHelsingland, containing objects for the celebration of Jul (Yule,Christmas). To the S. of this are pens for the Elks, Stags, andsmaller animals. The S. part of the park contains a second bears-den and several aviaries. Near the Bollnasstuga are also the Fabod(dairy) and the Fatbur, on a height to the W., a copy of the store-house of the manor of Bjorkvik in Ostergotland,

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