The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1850-09-09
Days and Nights In swedsn.

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Days and Nights in Sweden.
There is nothing that strikes n stranger
more torcibly, if he visits Sweden at this
season Of the year, when the days are
longest, than the absence Of night. DR..
Baird had no conception of it before his
arrival. He arrived at Stockholm from
Gottenburg, 400 miles distant, in the morn
ing, and in the afternoon went to see some
friends; had not taken notes Of time,
and returned about midnight (; it was as
light as it is here half an hour before sun
down. You could see distinctly. But all
was quiet in The streets it seemed ns if
all the inhabitpnts he'd gone away or were
dead. No signs of life, stores were
closed. The sun in June goes down at
Stockholm at little before ten o'clock
There is great Illumination all night, as
the sun passes round the earth towards the
north pole, and the refractory of its rays is
such, TINT you can see 10 read at midnight.
DR.. B. read letter in the forest near
Stockholm, at midnight, without artificial
light. There is mountain at the head Of
the Gull Of Bothinia, where on the 2lst Of
June the sun does not go down at ALL
Travellers 60 up there to see it. A steam
boat goes from Stockholm for the purpose
Of carrying those who wish to see the curl
GUS phenomena. 1t only occurs one night.
The sun goes down to tho horizon, you
can see the whole face of it, and in five
minutes it begins TO rise. At the North
Cape, lat. 72o it does not 90 down for
several weeks 10 the horizon.
The way the people know when it is
midnight, they see the sun begin to rise.-
The changes in those high ATTITUDES from
summer to winter are so great, that we
can have no conception of them at all -,
In the winter time the sun disappears and
is not seen for SIX weeks. Then it comes
up and shows its face. Afterwards it re.
mains for ten, or fifteen, or twenty min.
utes. then descends and finally 1t does
not set at oil, but almost circle round the
heavens. He had been asked how they
manage in regard to hired persons, and
what they considered dayi He could
not say, but supposed they worked by the
hours, and that twelve hours would be con.
sdered days work. Birds and animals
take their accustomed rest at their usual
hours. The DR.. did not know how they
learned the time, but they had, and go to
rest whether the sun goes down or not
The hens take to the trees about seven P.
NJ. and remain there till the sun is well
up in the morning; and the people get in
lothis habit of late rising, too. The first
morning DR.. B. awoke in. Stockholm, the
sun was shining brightly into his ROOM
He looked at his watch and found It was
only three o'clock. The next time he
lwoke it was five o'clock, but nobody in
he streets. The people are not in the
habit Of rising SO soon.
The Swedes in the cities are not very
Industrious, owing probably to the cli-
nate. The sun is up SO long, that the at
nosphere becomes very hot, though not so
not as our summer weather. The shop
keepers in Stockholm, in the middle of the
lay used to shut up their shops, aud take
heir siesta but the government allowed
he Jews to come in, and they Obliged the
Swedes to change. The Jews kept their
shops open in the middle of the day, and
The Swedes had TO follow thei. example,
But they are not very thankful to the
Jews for it. 'i' b&l6a
The Diet Of Norway does not allow a
Jew tostep his foot into the country. The
law was made in the nineteenth century,
and is disgrace to the age and its pro-
they exclude both Jews and
Jesuits. A few years ago the government
advertised for money; q Jw went TO
Copenhagen to negotiate the loan. He
made a bargain, and afterwards wanted to
90 ashore, but this privilege was refused
him. They we're glad ofhis money, but
would not allow himto step his foot upon
the soil. 4@99 Ag m GiF
The country of the Swedes and Nor
wegians may be called the New EngIand
Of Europe. Itisa q land of rocks, and con-
,ains lnnumerable numbers of lakes and
no part Of il is perfectly level,
and where the surfhce is comparatively
level, ills unduIaling, There are many
ironsmlnes, and some Of gold and silver
The iron mines Of Dohemoro, which is IL
a plain country, and 500 feet deep is par
ticularly celebrated, as also the iron and
copper mines Of Falmouth. The mining
districts are poor and popLlous, but you
fnd there The best people in Sweden. v
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