IN NORTHERN EUROPE, INCLUDING SKETCHES IN SWEDEN, NORWAY, FINLAND, BY SELINA BUNBURY, AUTHOR OF "LIFE IN SWEDEN," "OUR OWN STORY," &c. &c. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: HURST AND BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS, SUCCESSORS TO HENRY COLBURN, 13 GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. 1856. hism 20X378 A SUMMER IN NORTHERN EUROPE. CHAPTER I. AND now I am again on Lake Mälar! Beautiful Mälar. A fortnight ago these banks were darkly green or greyly bare: the often picturesque, but also generally monotonous firs, were the former-the poor, parched up leaf trees' were the latter. Not a green springshoot was seen here on the twelfth day of May. I return one fortnight afterwards and all is in rich foliage. forth without a spring; Summer has come Nature has now her womanhood, and has skipped over her soft youth VOL. II. B |