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the engines continued for fome time to play, and the water they
difcharged was frozen almoft the inftant it came in contact with
the walls already covered with ice. Thus a houfe was formed of
the moft extraordinary appearance that it is poflible to conceive.
It was fo curious an object that every body came to gaze at it asa
fomething wonderful. The whole building, from top to bottom, |
was incruftated with a thick coat of ice: the doors and windows
were clofed up, and in order to gain admiffion it was neceflary
with hammers and hatchets to open a paflage; they were obliged
to cut through the ice another ftair-cafe, for the purpofe of afcend-
ing to the upper ftories. All the rooms, and what remained of
the roof, were embellifhed by long ftalactites of multifarious
fhapes, and of a yellowith colour, compofed of the treacle and con-
gealed water. This building, contemplated in the light of the
fun, feemed to bear fome analogy to thofe diamond caftles that
are raifed by the imaginations of poets. It remained upwards of
two months in the fame ftate, and was vifited by all the curious.
The children in particular had excellent amufement with it, and
‘contributed not a little to the deftruction of the enchanted pa-
lace, by fearching for the particles of fugar, which were found in
many. places incorporated with the ice.
The change of the feafons produces at Stockholm, as every
where elfe, a difference in the amufements and occupations of
the people. But it is not in many places that this difference is
fo fenfibly felt as at Stockholm. During the long days of fum-
mer, when the twilight for more than a whole month fuperfedes
the
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