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no spirits are sold here. Farther on, 25 min. walk from Hasselbacken,
is Manilla, a large asylum for the blind and the deaf and
dumb (shown Thursdays, 11-1; ‘här ser man illa, har hör man illa,
och här talar man illa’, say the local wits). About ¼ hr. farther
at the E. end of the island, is the former custom-house station of
Blockhusudden.
On the N. side of the Djurgård, a few hundred paces froni the
bridge crossing to Djurgårdsbrunn, is Rosendal, a royal villa built
bv Charles XIV. John, with orangeries and hot-houses. At the back
of the villa, on the N. side, stands a magnificent modern Porphyry
Vase of antique form. 8½ ft. high and 11½ ft. in diameter, and
said to weigh 2¾ tons. Adjoining the grounds of Rosendal on the
W. is the garden of the Trädgårds-Förening, or horticultural
society, in which some travellers will be interested. A little to the
W. of this garden is the Sirishof-Väg, from which a path and a
road ascend in 5 min. to the *Belvedere, a tower erected in 1877,
110 ft. in height, standing on a hill upwards of 250 ft. above the
sea-level, and affording an excellent survey of the environs (166
steps in all; admission 50 ö.). The distant view, however, is more
extensive than picturesque. There being no mountains in sight,
and little or no cultivated land , the distance presents a somewhat
dreary appearance, the sombre tints of the forests being relieved
here and there by water only. Another path ascends to the
Belvedere between the Hasselbacken and Manège restaurants (¼ hr.).
About ½ hr. to the N. of the Djurgård, on a bay of the Saltsjö called
Lilia Värtan is the new Harbour of Stockholm, or Värtanhamnen,
connected with the central railway-station by a junction line (8 Kil. in 25 min ,
fare 40, 30, 20 ö.; intermediate stations Karlberg, Norrtull, and Albano).
From the islet of Beckholmen, to the S. of the Djurgård, with
dry-docks and tar-works, a ferry-boat plies to Tegelviken (p. 34b).
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