Friday, August 16, 1839 Travel Journal

1839

August

Friday 16 

8 10/..

12 10/..

Fine morning.  Fahrenheit 66° at 9 a.m.

Had William Riddle at 9 1/4 and went to see about driving seat being put to the carriage –

Breakfast at 9 3/4 and wrote the last 10 lines of the last page and so far of this till now, 11 5/.. –

Went to the bank at 11 25/.., and there till 11 50/.. The gentleman very civil.  Gave 113 skillings per species for the 74 species that remained of his own money and 112 the present rate of exchange for the Christiania money that we had, but did not take the little money – only the paper.  Therefore exchanged 206 species for 74 at 113 skillings, and the rest at 112 skillings.  Received = 482 dollars, 10 skillings Banco –

Messers Carnegie great sugar merchants – Their refinery at Clippen – Iron merchants and timber merchants – Their correspondents at Hull, Messers Wilson, Hudson and Company – All the iron at Dannemora contracted for at Hull – It is all of a particular quality; i.e., for making steel –

Then sauntered about the Grande Place and into the little apparently public garden on a little island between 2 canals, just beyond the Grande Place (to the northwest) –

Ann sketched one of the chairs – Curule – such as we saw at Avignon.  Common in Sweden – Saw them at Helsinborg – Common in Norway?  All reminds me of my idea of the old Romans being of Norsk or Gothic origin.

Curule chairs common to Norsk and Romans.

Icelandic wood calendars (almanacks) like those hung up in the temple of Janus at Rome?  Bagpipe. See if common to Norsk and Romans

Sybil’s ancient books, any connection between these and the old Sagas?

Mars the god of the Romans, Savours of Norsk?

Mare, sea, meer.

See what common terms there are in the Norsk and Roman, now called Latin –

Frocost Breakfast – Cost signifies meat, and cost signifies the value of a thing i.e. how much does such and such a thing cost?  i.e. how much food will pay for such and such a thing?  And food would naturally be the easiest money or barter or truck (or tret?) paid in exchange –

Our garden fenced from the canals by a white thorn hedge, and, within it, avenues of limes, some cut, some uncut –

Sat writing till 1 1/4 – At the one bed of flowers with low privet hedge round it and at the other end “Brunns Hus,” water drinking house – Taps (and all the different principal Spa waters ranged at the back of long sort of comptoir, very neat and convenient –

Then sauntered about – To William Andrews, Devonshire man, naturalized here – Bought gloves for Ann.  About an hour there, and home at 2 1/2 –

Then from 2 50/.. to 4 55/.., out about the carriage and harness – to be 33 Banco –

Then had our coachman, William Riddle.  To have 15 Dollars Banco for passage back and 15 Dollars Banco allowing for 5 days in returning –

Then out with Ann – 3/4 hour till 6 10/.. on the telegraph rock near our Inn.  Very fine view of town and river and shipping and Clippen –

Dinner at 6 1/4 to 7 1/2 – Came to bed at 8 1/4 – Ann done 1st –

Fine day –

Sat reading Encyclopædia of Geography (Norway etc.) till 9 1/4 – Counting over money till 11 25/.. No! Till 11 40/.., at this and accounts –

Fine day.  Fahrenheit 56° now at 11 3/4 p.m.  Rainy now after midnight at 12 10/.., just as I had written (for tomorrow) copies of letters to Mr. Hawkins about the anchovies and to Mr. Parker to tell him to write to me at St. Petersburg

 

WYAS Finding Numbers SH/ML/TR/12/0027 and SH/ML/TR/12/0028