. Charles Eliot, landscape architect : a lover of nature and of his kind who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good /Charles William Eliot. ty of thatfrom Kockland [Maine] eastward. After dark he took trainfor Stockholm again. The next day he took steamer for Helsingfors; but beforehe left Stockholm he made the following entry in his journal: Hurrah for the North and Stockholm. Here is no archi-tecture, — not nearly so much as in Copenhagen, or in Bos-ton for that matter, — except the bridges. Nothing great inthe way of fine art in any sort.
. Charles Eliot, landscape architect : a lover of nature and of his kind who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good /Charles William Eliot. ty of thatfrom Kockland [Maine] eastward. After dark he took trainfor Stockholm again. The next day he took steamer for Helsingfors; but beforehe left Stockholm he made the following entry in his journal: Hurrah for the North and Stockholm. Here is no archi-tecture, — not nearly so much as in Copenhagen, or in Bos-ton for that matter, — except the bridges. Nothing great inthe way of fine art in any sort. No Parisian fashions; noconspicuous nabobry; no smoke or smut; no rags, dirt, ordrunkenness ; but men and women of a most sterling appear-ance. The voyage to Helsingfors (Aug. 30th) was very prosperous. The afternoon among the sea islands off Stockholm wasextremely interesting and amusing. We twisted and turnedin this manner, often pass-ing through passages ofextreme narrowness, theislands rocky, darklywooded, and very sparselyinhabited. The steamerdid not get fairly to seatill almost sunset, having started at 3 P. m. We passedthrough one narrow crack between two modern forts, and. 178 LANDSCAPE STUDY IN EUROPE. FINLAND [1886 later, just before putting to sea, through a gulch between twoislets only just wide enough to admit the ship, — a red fish-ing village on the southern isle. Out in the open water weresome bad ledges, an island with a big day-mark, and anotherwith a lighthouse. All the inner islands were wooded andscarcely inhabited. A few were occupied by summer houseshalf-hidden away under trees or beside big rocks. We meta few vessels towing up, several wood-boats under sail, a bigone-masted craft with no bowsprit, and one pretty sloopyacht. There were very many pretty views up open reaches,with complicated side-scenes of jutting points and woods,and perhaps a sail or two in the far distance. The nightwas good, and the water smooth; and at breakfast time thelow Fi
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