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50 ‘TRAVELS 7"
feribed vincere aut mors.* Many paflages are here ‘tranfcribed
from Cornelius Nepos and Quintus Curtius. Befides books, the
library comprehends a cabinet of natural hiftory ‘and° another of
antient and modern medals} and Jikewife a collection of original
Flemifh, Dutch, and Italian paintings. The whole forms a
monument of that love of fcience, and tafte for the fine arts,
which fo eminently diftinguifhed the queen of Sweden, mother
to Guftavus JII. and fifter to Frederic the Great of Pruffia. The
medals are depofited in eight chefts, with one hundred and twenty _
drawers. ‘The princefs juft mentioned inftituted alfo an academy
of belles-lettres, who, during her life time, held their meetings
at Drottningholm. ‘The palace of Drottningholm farther offers
to your view a gallery of paintings, the principal fubjects of
which are, the battles and victories of the kings and princes of
Sweden.
Every year an exhibition takes place at Drottningholm, at the
king’s expence, reprefenting a tournament, in which all the laws
‘of chivalry are obferved with the greateft exactnefs.. This thew,
which is generally attended by an immenfe crowd of {peétators,
carries the imagination back for four or five centuries. It was
particularly brought into vogue by Guftavus III. who was a great
lover of whatever tended to imprefs the mind with ideds of gran-
deur. His prefent Majefty, who fhews a difpofition to tread in
the footfteps of his father as much as poffible, after his acceffion to
* Victory or death.
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