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THROUGH SWEDEN. ee,
Enveloped in pelices of Ruffian bears’ fkins, our heads clofely
covered with fur caps, and our hands in gloves lined with wool or
fur, we found no reafon to complain of cold the whole way to
Griflehamn, where we arrived on the fame evening. The {ky was
covered with clouds and dark, and confequently our journey was
difmal, or at leaft gloomy. The firft object that prefented itfelf
to our view on leaving Stockholm behind us, was the gardens of
Haga, already mentioned, with the lake which in the fummer fea-
fon forms fo great an embellifhment to this delightful retreat. It
was no longer that delicicus paradife, that pleafure ground tufted
with trees in leaf, and adorned with fhrubberies and coppice wood,
through which the winding paths, under a pleafing fhade, imper-
ceptibly conducted the vifitor to fome fountain, or to the vaulted
roof of fome little temple, or fome cabin, the afylum of fimplicity
and love: it was the fkeleton, or, more properly, the inanimated
carcafe of that garden. All the fine contrivances of art which
were made ufe of to captivate the eye, and to fill the mind with
a pleafing fenfation of furprize and fatisfaction; thofe means that
were called in aid to improve the beauty of the place, and to
conceal its faults; all thefe fecrets by which you were kept in a
ftate of ignorance of what could afford no gratification if known
or feen, were now, by the mercilefs feverity of the feafon, cruelly
revealed. A fad and mournful nakednefs was vifible throughout
the whole. Thofe temples and retreats to which you were led
through many meandering ways and turns, and which were fo
fituated as to deceive the imagination by the idea that they were
Vout. I, Aa placed
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