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42 TRAVELS
frozen, fo that it became neceflary to melt it by the injection of
a red-hot bar of iron. I have attempted to make a drawing
of this carriage ; but it is difficult for art to imitate the operations
and eftects of the froft, difplayed in the various appearances of the -
ice ; its tranfparency and the fantaftical beauty of its embroide-
ries are not eafily copied. For the purpofe of rendering the de- —
fign more interefting, I have chofen the pump at the bridge near
the Mint: this gave me an opportunity of introducing into the
piece that edifice, which was very near the houfe called Rofena-_
dlefka, where we lodged, and formed an angle of the {treet lead-
ing to the fquare of Riddarholmen. In the fame plate I have ©
added a reprefentation of one of thofe fmall fledges that are ufed
for the conveyance of goods or luggage from one place to another,
which are peculiar, I believe, to the city of Stockholm. Neither
men nor women carry any thing on their heads or fhoulders,
but employ thefe fledges, which they pufh on before them.
When they come to a declivity, they reft with their left hip and
thigh on the fledge, and glide down to the bottom with a velo-
city, which to a ftranger appears both aftonifhing and frightful,
guiding all the while the motion of the fledge with their night
foot. The addrefs with which they perform this, it is not eafy
for any one to conceive who has not witneffed it. If you add to
the objects which I have bee defcribing, the curious appear-
ance of the many different pellices that are worn with the furs
on the outfide, you will imagine what a ftriking fcene the ftreets
of Stockholm in winter prefent to a foreigner, efpecially to one
that came from the fouthern part of Europe.
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