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26 = =ATOURI THROUGH
which grows upon the rocks on the barren fummits of the
mountains. For this reafon when the fnow is impenetra-
bly frozen in the fevere winter, the boors are obliged to
cut down fome thoufands of thofe mofs-cloathed trees for
the fuftenence of their herds.
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LETTER XXXV.
‘. pe ee re et _ Stockholn.
N the Citadel we were fhewn a fet of {mall Ordnance
which belonged to King Charles XII. confifting of
four and twenty brafs cannon mounted on their carriages.
Very early in Life, before his Love of Deftruétion had
occafioned fo many wild adventures, he uled to“amufe:
himfelf with fiting at objeets with this artillery. Proba-
bly it would have been happier for him, as well as his.
pe be
country, if he had been always thusinnocently employed
General Stenbork was the Prince’s Inftructor inthis Sci-.
ence, Hehad difcovered feveral Improvements in the
art of Gunnery, and got this fet of brafs cannon caft to
jHuftrate his principles to. his royal. Pupil, for whom he
intended them asa prefent... -2 =. tar
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