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RAMLØSA.
Chap. XIX.
our way to the hotel we purchased a pound of the “
bonbons ” for which the town of Helsingborg is justly
celebrated—don’t forget that.
RAMLØSA.
At four o’clock we drive (Councillor Roth, the
Hanoverian consul, had kindly placed his carriage at our disposal)
over to Ramløsa mineral-waters, at twenty minutes’
distance from Helsingborg. I had never heard much about
them except that they were out of fashion, so we were
most agreeably surprised on our arrival. The springs
are situated in a glen, most picturesque to look upon
—the hotels, bazaars, &c., in a forest on the plateau
above. There are numberless wooden houses and
chalets planted about in every direction. Here the
birch and ash predominate over the beech. We
wandered about the forest and glen for some time, bright in
all the glory of the new-born foliage—a carpet of lilies
bursting into flower and fragrance, varied by patches
of the yellow wood-anemone,* the blaae simmer,! and
other offspring of the forest. Independent of its walks,
its wooden houses, its cheapness, its flowers to pluck, and
its vipers to shriek at, Ramløsa boasts of one advantage
seldom found combined except in the baths and
washhouses of London town: you are near the sea, the
waters are ferruginous ; you can wash your exterior and
* Anemone ranunculoides. The last time I found this plant growing
wild was upon the mountains at the convent of Laverno, near Florence.
I suppose the vegetation of an Italian mountain differs little from a
Danish wood. The Hepatica again, in the South, is an Alpine plant,
as also the Primula farinosa,—common, all three, in the plains of
Zealand.
f Hepatica.
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