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shaped cap, which sometimes has two narrow bands across 

 it. The fishwives have blue ribbons on their hats, the 

 fruit and vegetable sellers wear green, or both occasion- 

 ally wear purple. They, and their customers likewise, 

 carry pairs of baskets of vegetables, each a yard long, 

 hung horizontally from a yoke. The butchers' market is 

 held under the longest of the pointed-arched colonnades 

 that divide the market-place from the busy interesting 

 High Street and from St. Mary's Place. 



From Liibeck Linnaeus went to Hamburg, a city 

 at least as ancient as Ltibeck : it is said to have been 

 founded by Charlemagne, but, oh, how different from 

 Liibeck ! a splendid great modern republic of a town, 

 interesting to the student of social economy, made by 

 commerce for commerce only, with its two diiferent 

 quarters inhabited by the masters and servants of com- 

 merce. The landscape leading to it from Liibeck is more 

 varied in type than the rest of the vast monotonous plain 

 of Northern Europe, and more happy-looking, having 

 here and there a turfy slope covered with beech trees. 



In Hamburg the market-women wear very short 

 ungraceful petticoats, and their black hats have stiff 

 black buckram bows at the back beneath the brim, 

 Strawberries come in early here, and roses. This is a 

 land of summer. Sweden is the land of spring, and 

 Norway the land of winter. The overhanging houses 

 in the maritime and commercial quarters of Hamburg 

 are gabled and quaint, tile-roofed and cross-patterned 

 with wood, looking old and very German. The 



