The Naturalist's Library, Vol. 6

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Excerpt from The Naturalist's Library, Vol. 6: Ornithology, Humming Birds, Part IOur life was much happier when we resided in the country. Our habitation'was about half a quarter of a league distant from his house at Hammarby, in a farm where we kept our own furniture and other requisites for housekeeping. He rose very early in summer, and mostly about four o'clock. At six he came to us because his house was then building, breakfasted with us, and gave lectures upon the na tural order of plants (ordines naturales plantaram), as long as be pleased, and generally till about ten o'clock. We then wandered about till twelve upon the adjacent rocks, the productions of which afforded us plenty of entertainment. In the afternoon we repaired to his garden, and in the evening we mostly played at the Swedish game of trissett, in company with his Spouse.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.