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38 TRAVELS.
fulated capital, from which you may furvey its manifold and fins.
gular beauties. Steeples, houfes, rocks, trees, lakes, and the
caftle, which rears its head above the whole, prefent to the eye a
moft interefting pi€ure. But: the point of view which is more
ftriking than all the others, and where every ftranger fhould dftop
and look around him, is the north bridge. Turning towards
the city, you have in front a view of its whole extent, and of the
forepart of the caftle, which ftands on the brow of a hill. As is
a work of fuperb architecture, fimple indeed, but noble and ma-
jeftic; not incumbered with that load of ufelefs ornaments,
which greatly disfigured the caftle or palace of Copenhagen, as
may {till be feen from the ruins that were left by the fire, which
has nearly deftroyed that magnificent ftructure. ‘Thence, on the.
right, your eye takes a wide range; and perceives, among other’
objects, a number of hills adorned with houfes or with fir-trees,
and refts with delight on a {mall ifland, embellifhed with a pa-
vilion or fummer houfe, which is reflected by the limpid furface
of the water, and exhibits a moft pleafing appearance. Near to
this building, on the right hand, ftands the beautiful houfe of
the Count de Bunge, where a club is held, diftinguifhed by the
name of tle Society. A profpe&t as much diverfified, and not lefs
extenfive, is opened towards the eaft, comprehending at fome |
diftance the ifle of Blafius, which communicates by means of a
wooden bridge with Ships-ifland. To the left you {ee the theatre
or play-houfe, and to the north you obferve the Nordermalm or:
north-place, in the centre of which ftands a guilt ftatue in bronze
of
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