New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-12-05
rs~ visd and reached F.sIpn toward evening",

rs~ visd, and reached F.sIun tcvsrd evening",
jsst in time to avoid drenctiBs storm
or ibe celebrated copper mines Of F.hiun, some
OF which bavs been worried for sir hundred Yeas
We sss Nothing. We took their mssnituie and
fesnes for granted, 90 the strength Of the i'm
meme hesps Of dross through which we drove on
approaching the town, and the desclsse appearance
Of the surrounding country, whose vege.s.ion hss
been for the mos part destroyed By the fune. from
the smelling works In our sore and sodden con-
dition We were in no hunor 10 60 sightseeing, s1d
30 sa; comfortably By the stove while he rain beat
seairst tie WINDOWS ard the darkness fell. The
next morning brought Us = renewal Of the same
weather, but we set out bravely in our open earl,
and jcted over the muddy roads with such perse-
veEance thit We reached Hedemora at night. The
hill, diminished in hight as we proceeded south.
ward, but the scenery retained its lovely pastoral
ehslscter. Ny most prominent recollection Of the
days travel, however, is of the number Of gates
cur numb and blue faced boy positions were
obliged TO jump down and open.
From Hedemora, journey of two days through
the Provinces Of Westersss aud Uppland brouyhtus
TO Upssls. After leaving Dsle,srlia sad crossing
the Dial River for TIE fifth aud last time tho COM
Try gradually sank into those long, slightly rolling
plains, which we had trsvsrsed las. Winter, be-
tween Stockholm and Gehe. Here villages were
frequent but the houses had not tue same air Of
thrift and comfort as in D,ec.rlia The population,
also, changed in character, the faces We nov saw
being le,s bright cheerful and kindly, and tbs
forms lees tail and strongly knit. We h,d very
fair accommodations 4. ali the post stations along
the road, and found the people everywhere honest
and obligpg. Sill, missed the noble simplicity
which had admired 80 much in the natives Of
We.t.rdsl and on the frontier of Wermeland-.he
unaffected kindness of heart which made mo look
upon every man as friend.
The large town Of Ssla, where we spent night,
was filed with fugitves from Up's'a, where the
cholera was making great rsvsges. The violence
of the disease was over by the time We 7ed, bus
the students, all of whom had left, had not yet
returned, and the fine old place had melancholy
air. The first thing we saw on approaching it was
funeral. Prof. Bergfalk, who had remained at
his post, and to whom 1 had letters, most kindly
gave me whole day OF his time. SAW the famous
Codez argenteps, in the Ibrsry the original manu-
script of Frthios Saga, the journals of Swedenborg
and Linraus, the Botanical Garden and the tombs
of Gustayus Vasa and John III. 10 The Cathedral.
But most interestng Of all was our drive to Old
Upsala, where we climbed upon the mound Of Oan
and drank mead out Of the silver-mOunted drinking
horn, from which Bernadotts, Oscar and the whole
TOY al family Of Sweden are in the habit Of drinking
when they make pilgrimage TO the burial place OF
the Scandinavian Gods.
A cold, pale, yellow light lay upon the landscape;
the towers of Upsala Cathedral and the massive
front Of the Palace rose dark against the sky, in
tho southwest; chill autumnal wind blow over
the plain, and the following foliage of tho birch
di.fted across the mysterious mounds, like those
few golden leaves of poetry which the modern bsrds
Of thu North have cast upon the grave Of the grand,
muscular religion Of the earlier race. There was
no melodiOus wailDg in the wind, like that which
proclaimed "Psn is dead" through the groves Of
Greece and Ionia, but cold, rustlng hiss, - If
the ,erpent Of Midgsrd we're e1ulting over the rain
of Walhas. But in the singing, aromatic food Of
the amber. cosoIed mead drank 10 Oda, to Bader,
and to Frejs- BT.