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Title: ZigZag Journeys in Northern Lands;
The Rhine to the Arctic

Author: Hezekiah Butterworth

Release Date: May 22, 2009 [EBook #28915]

Language: English

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ZIGZAG JOURNEYS
IN
NORTHERN LANDS.

THE RHINE TO THE ARCTIC.

_A SUMMER TRIP OF THE ZIGZAG CLUB THROUGH
HOLLAND, GERMANY, DENMARK, NORWAY,
AND SWEDEN._

BY

HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH,

AUTHOR OF "YOUNG FOLKS' HISTORY OF AMERICA,"
"YOUNG FOLKS' HISTORY OF BOSTON,"
"ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN EUROPE," ETC.

_FULLY ILLUSTRATED._

BOSTON:
ESTES AND LAURIAT,
301-305 WASHINGTON STREET.
1884.

_Copyright, 1883_,
BY ESTES AND LAURIAT.

THE ZIGZAG SERIES.

BY

HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH,

OF THE EDITORIAL STAFF OF THE "YOUTH'S COMPANION,"
AND CONTRIBUTOR TO "ST. NICHOLAS" MAGAZINE.

_Each volume complete in itself._

NOW PUBLISHED.

_ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN EUROPE._
_ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN CLASSIC LANDS._
_ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN THE ORIENT._
_ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN THE OCCIDENT._

New Volume for 1883.

_ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN NORTHERN LANDS._

--> _Over 100,000 volumes of the Zigzag books have
already been sold._

[Illustration: CARRYING SIEGFRIED'S BODY.]

PREFACE.

This fifth volume of the Zigzag books, in which history is taught by a
supposed tour of interesting places, might be called a German
story-book.

It was the aim of "ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN EUROPE" and "ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN
CLASSIC LANDS" to make history interesting by stories and pictures of
places. It was the purpose of "ZIGZAG JOURNE