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THROUGH SWEDEN. At
fant and convenient than they are in fummer or autumn; at
which feafons, partly on account of the pavement, and partly on
account of the dirt, they are often almoft impaflable. One layer
of fnow on another, hardened by the froft, forms a furface more
equal and agreeable to walk on, which is fometimes raifed more
than a yard above the ftones of the ftreet. You are no longer
ftunned by the irkfome noife of carriage-wheels; but this is
exchanged for the tinkling of little bells, with which they deck
their horfes before the fledges. The only wheels now to be feen
in Stockholm are thofe of fmall carts, employed by men fer-
vants of families to fetch water from the pump inacafk. This
compound of cart and cafk always ftruck me asa very curious
and extraordinary object; infomuch, that I once took the trouble
of following it, in order to have a nearer view of the whimfical
robe in which the froft had invefted it, and particularly of the
variegated and fantaftical drapery in which the wheels were co-
vered and adorned. This vehicle, with all its appertenances,
afforded to a native of Italy a very fingular fpectacle. The horfe
was wrapped up, as it feemed, in a mantle of white down, which
under his breaft and belly was fringed with points and tufts of ice.
Stalactical ornaments of the iame kind, fome of them to the
length of a foot, were alfo attached to his nofe and mouth. The
fervant that attended the cart had on a frock, which was en-
crufted with a folid maf$ of ice. His ceye-brows and hair jingled
with icicles, which were formed by the aGion of the froft on his
breath and perfpiration. Sometimes the water in the pump was
Vot. I. G frozen,
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