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Updated: September 9, 2025
Vast, bare, primitive, with eight windows to admit the persistent nocturnal twilight; a sea-like floor of blue-painted boards, unbroken by a single island of carpet; and a castellated stove in one corner: an apartment for giants, with two little beds for dwarfs on opposite shores of the ocean.
At the opposite extremity of this magnificent and sea-like lake, which is upwards of two hundred miles in circumference, the far-famed St.
As a background to this picture lies the Vettern the bottomless lake as the commonalty believe with its transparent water, its sea-like waves, and in calm, with "Hegring," or fata morgana on its steel-like surface. We see Vadstene palace and town, "the city of the dead," as a Swedish author has called it Sweden's Herculaneum, reminiscence's city.
As we crawl at a snail's pace between rocks and ravine, silvery grey masses towering against the glowing purple sky, deepest green fastnesses below that make us giddy to behold, all is still but for the sea-like war of the little river as it pours down impetuously from its mountain home.
The town is situated, as already mentioned, on a high bank, which forms quite a considerable elevation for this flat country, and the broad expanse of dark-green waters is studded with low, palm-clad islands the prospect down river, however, being clear, or bounded only by a sea-like horizon of water and sky.
"Then," I said, "I wish you to tell me the way to those little cottages in whose upper chambers poets look out upon the fields we know not, for I wish to go into the Land of Dream and to sail once more upon mighty, sea-like Yann." At that he moved heavily and slowly in way-worn carpet slippers, panting as he went, to the back part of his shop, and I went with him.
Happiest time First visit to the Capital Old and New Buenos Ayres Vivid impressions Solitary walk How I learnt to go alone Lost The house we stayed at and the sea-like river Rough and narrow streets Rows of posts Carts and noise A great church festival Young men in black and scarlet River scenes Washerwomen and their language Their word-fights with young fashionables Night watchmen A young gentleman's pastime A fishing dog A fine gentleman seen stoning little birds A glimpse of Don Eusebio, the Dictator's fool.
Wherever I went, on ridges or in hollows, enthusiastic water still flashed and gurgled about my ankles, recalling a wild winter flood in Yosemite when a hundred waterfalls came booming and chanting together and filled the grand valley with a sea-like roar.
That was all there was to see, except the herds of cattle and horses and an occasional horseman galloping over the plain, and the sight at long distances of a grove or small plantation of trees, marking the site of an estancia, or sheep and cattle farm, these groves appearing like islands on the sea-like flat country.
Both birds were wheeling about the castle nest, their noble flight full of the freedom of the marsh, their piercing cries voicing its wildness. And how free, how wild, how untouched by human hands the wide plain seemed! Sea-like it lay about me, circled southward from east to west with the rim of the sky. I moved on toward the bay.
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