"Kurze Mittheilungen von einer Reise in England und Schottland"

Name of traveller

E. Soechting

Reason for travel

• study of British life and industrial development

Date of travel

undated, ca. early 1850s

Die Weiber tragen hohe Männerhüte, die Männer und Knaben hingegen spitze, ähnlich den der Tyroler, mit denen das Volk überhaupt in manchen Sitten, auch in der Sprache Verwandschaft zeigen soll. Ihre Mundart ist reich an Kehllauten und Häufungen von Consonanten. (Söchting 391)

Content

• agriculture: notes dairy farming in Snowdonia
• architecture:
  • description of the Menai Suspension Bridge and the Britannia Bridge
  • appraisal of Caernarfon Castle
• clothing: notes tall women's hats and compares men's hats to types worn in Tyrol
• customs: notes suposed relation between Welsh population and population of Tyrol based on similar customs and language
• industry: notes slate quarries around Snowdonia
• language: some notes on Welsh placenames and sound of Welsh language
• terrain:
  • travels along north Wales coast
  • comparison with Harz mountains
  • description of landscape purely from geographers' point of view
• transport:
  • travels via train
  • impressed by railway infrastructure of north Wales
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Nationality of traveller

German

Language of publication

German

Gender of traveller

Male

Type of publication

report; travelogue

Citation

Soechting, E. "Kurze Mittheilungen von einer Reise in England und Schottland." Zeitschrift für die gesamten Naturwissenschaften 5.11 (Nov. 1855): 378-99. Print.