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THROUH SWEDEN. 43
In the winter 1799, I beheld at Stockholm a fpectacle of a
very uncommon nature, and fuch as I never, in all probability,
fhall fee a fecond time. It was a fugar-houfe on fire in the
fuburb, on the fouth fide of the city. The accident being an-
nounced by the difcharge of cannon, all the fire engines were
immediately hurried to the aid of the owners. The feverity of
that winter was {o great, that there was not a fingle {pot near,
where the water was not frozen to the depth of a yard from the
furface. It was neceflary to break the ice with hatchets and
hammers, and to® draw up the water as from a well. Immedi-
ately on filling the cafks, they were obliged to carry them off
with all poffible fpeed, left the water fhould be congealed, as in
fact about a third part of it was by the time it could be brought
to the place where it was wanted. In order to prevent it as much
as poflible from freezing, they conftantly kept. ftirring it about
with a ftick; but even this operation had only a partial effect.
At laft, by the united power of many engines, Rehich launched
forth a great mafs of water, the fire was got under, after deftroy-
ing only the roof, the houfe itfelf being very little damaged. It
was in the upper {tories of the building that the ftock of fugar
was depofited ; there were alfo many veffels full of treacle, which
being broken by the falling-in of the roof, the juice ran down
along the fides of the walls. The water thrown up to the top of
the houfe by the engines, -and flowing back on the walls, ftair-
cafes, and through the windows, was {topped in its downward courfe
by the mighty power of the froft. After the fire was extinguifhed,
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