Kalm's account of his visit to England : on his way to America in 1748 / translated by Joseph Lucas ; with two maps and several illustrations.

  • Pehr Kalm
Date:
1892
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Credit: Kalm's account of his visit to England : on his way to America in 1748 / translated by Joseph Lucas ; with two maps and several illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    J05 5,300 volumes of manuscripts in Medicine and Natural History, bound in beautiful bindings. A book of Chinese Paper with several beautiful pictures in it. Besides the aforenamed long and narrow room there were eight other rooms, in which all the walls were full of books, from the floor to the ceiling. Each of these rooms was about 14 ft. high, the length and breadth about 15 to 18 ft., sometimes more, sometimes less. [Other various objects of Natural History.] [T. I. p. 436.] The shoes of several different Races Folkslags Skor; but the Finns’ Birch-bark shoes, Finnarnas Näfver-Skor,*and the Russians’bast-shoes, Russarnas Bast-Skorf, made of lime-bark were con- spicuous by their absence. [Various other objects.] In another room were several of such books as consisted of colored pictures [T. I. p. 437] 0f all sorts of Natural objects. Such were Mariana’s, Catesby’s, Sebe’s, Madame Blackwelhs, &c., costly works, Egyp-' tian Mummies, Roman and other Antiquities, &c.~ In the garden we saw Sir Hans Sloane’s Chair [T. I. p. 438] with three wheels under it, two in front and a little one behind, in which he was drawn about in his garden. [T. I. p. 438.] The 26th May, 1748. Thermometers Jämförelse Comparison of Thermometers. After I was tired of seeing all this [Sir Hans Sloane’s * Finnarnas Näfver-Skor, the white birch-bark. The Lapp name for tlie birch is Säke, as Linnreus {Flora Lapponica Amst. 1737, Svo. p. 262) remarks. “ Calceos dum piscatum eunt, gerunt ex ramentis (p. 263) corticis betulini,” &c. “ when theygo a fishing they vvear long boots made of pieces of birch-bark,” &c. [J. L.] t Russarnas Bast-Skor. Ger “ Bast Schuhe, Basteln, Russ. “ Lapshy (plur.), des Souliers de cordes d’ecorce d’arbre.” J. Ileym. Deulsch-Russ- Franz Wörlcrbuch. 1805, obl. 8vo. [J. L.J
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