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  YOUNG AMERICA IN NORWAY. Page 159.]

  YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD

  UP THE BALTIC

  BOSTON LEE & SHEPARD.

  _YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD--SECOND SERIES._

  UP THE BALTIC;

  OR,

  YOUNG AMERICA IN NORWAY, SWEDEN, AND DENMARK.

  A STORY OF TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE.

  BY WILLIAM T. ADAMS. (_OLIVER OPTIC_),

  AUTHOR OF "OUTWARD BOUND," "SHAMROCK AND THISTLE," "RED CROSS," "DIKES AND DITCHES," "PALACE AND COTTAGE," "DOWN THE RHINE," ETC.

  BOSTON: LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS. NEW YORK: LEE, SHEPARD AND DILLINGHAM, NOS. 47 AND 49 GREENE ST. 1875.

  Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, BY WILLIAM T. ADAMS, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

  Electrotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry, No. 19 Spring Lane.

  TO MY EVER-CHEERFUL AND GOOD-NATURED FRIEND

  SHEPARD K. MATTISON,

  WHOM I MET FOR THE FIRST TIME AT TROLLHAeTTEN, ON THE GOETA CANAL, ANDWITH WHOM I JOURNEYED THROUGH SWEDEN, RUSSIA, AUSTRIA, SPAIN, ANDPORTUGAL,

  _This Volume_

  IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.

  YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD. BY OLIVER OPTIC.

  A Library of Travel and Adventure in Foreign Lands. First and SecondSeries; six volumes in each Series. 16mo. Illustrated.

  _First Series._

  I. _OUTWARD BOUND_; OR, YOUNG AMERICA AFLOAT. II. _SHAMROCK AND THISTLE_; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN IRELAND AND SCOTLAND. III. _RED CROSS_; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. IV. _DIKES AND DITCHES_; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN HOLLAND AND BELGIUM. V. _PALACE AND COTTAGE_; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN FRANCE AND SWITZERLAND. VI. _DOWN THE RHINE_; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN GERMANY.

  _Second Series._

  I. _UP THE BALTIC_; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN NORWAY, SWEDEN, AND DENMARK. II. _NORTHERN LANDS_; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN RUSSIA AND PRUSSIA. In preparation. III. _CROSS AND CRESCENT_; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN TURKEY AND GREECE. In preparation. IV. _SUNNY SHORES_; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN ITALY AND AUSTRIA. In preparation. V. _VINE AND OLIVE_; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL. In preparation. VI. _ISLES OF THE SEA_; OR, YOUNG AMERICA HOMEWARD BOUND. In preparation.

  PREFACE.

  UP THE BALTIC, the first volume of the second series of "YOUNG AMERICAABROAD," like its predecessors, is a record of what was seen and doneby the young gentlemen of the Academy Squadron on its second voyage toEurope, embracing its stay in the waters of Norway, Sweden, andDenmark. Agreeably to the announcement made in the concluding volumeof the first series, the author spent the greater portion of last yearin Europe. His sole object in going abroad was to obtain the materialfor the present series of books, and in carrying out his purpose, hevisited every country to which these volumes relate, and, he hopes,properly fitted himself for the work he has undertaken.

  In the preparation of UP THE BALTIC, the writer has used, besides hisown note-books, the most reliable works he could obtain at home and inEurope, and he believes his geographical, historical, and politicalmatter is correct, and as full as could be embodied in a story. He hasendeavored to describe the appearance of the country, and the mannersand customs of the people, so as to make them interesting to youngreaders. For this purpose these descriptions are often interwoven withthe story, or brought out in the comments of the boys of the squadron.

  The story is principally the adventures of the crew of the secondcutter, who attempted "an independent excursion without running away,"which includes the career of a young Englishman, spoiled by hismother's indulgence, and of a Norwegian waif, picked up by thesquadron in the North Sea.

  The author is encouraged to enter upon this second series by theremarkable and unexpected success which attended the publicationof the first series. Difficult as it is to work the dry details ofgeography and history into a story, the writer intends to persevere inhis efforts to make these books instructive, as well as interesting;and he is confident that no reader will fail to distinguish the goodboys from the bad ones of the story, or to give his sympathies to theformer.

  HARRISON SQUARE, BOSTON, May 10, 1871.