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36 TRAVELS
‘is built on an ifland.” But the fact is, that the greater part of
what is called Stockholm is fituated, not on one, but feyen or
eight iflands, of which fome are furrounded by the frefh water of
the lake Malar, and fome by the falt water of the fea. ‘The city,
properly fo called, ftands on an ifland in the midft of the whole:
to the weft it is wafhed by frefh, and to the eaft by falt water,
being placed at the junction of the lake Malar with the Baltic Sea. _
The aggregate of the ifles of Stockholm 1s as follows: 1. Staden-
holmen, or City Ifland: 2. Riddarholmen, or the Knights’ Ifland,
in which is the Town Houfe, and in front of this a ftatue of
Guftavus Vafa. 3. Helgelandfholmen, or the ifle of the Holy
Ghoft. It was here, in the time of Magnus Ladiflaus, that an
important act was pafled by the diet, or parliament, in the year
1282, for annexing many large domains to the crown. 4. Skip-
pifholmen, or the ifle of Ships, called in the map Admiralftates-
holmen. Here are barracks and magazines for the flotilla. With
this, the little ifland of Caftelholmen is connected by a fmall bridge.
5. Blasitholmen, or the ifle of Blafius: this, however, cannot be
ftri@tly called an ifland, becaufe on one fide the channel has been
filled up by the formation of the king’s gardens, fo that it is now
joined to the continent. It is here that the faction of the Hats,
which was in favour of king Albrecht, in 1389, committed the
horrid cruelty of burning alive two hundred Swedes. The party
in oppofition to the Hats, as is well known, were the Caps; be-
caufe they wore this article of drefs, which was confidered as the
patriotic diftinCtion of the nation. It was in Albrecht’s reign that
“Sweden
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