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178 TRAVELS
placed at great diftances from each other, were. beheld heaped
together in one crowd. There appeared no marks of regular
combination and defign: all was a dead confufion.
Having traverfed the lake of Haga, we pafled very near the
country houfe of the queen dowager Ulrica, called Ulrick{dale.
It had been before the feat of Count John de Gardie, but was
purchafed by the queen dowager Ulrica Eleanora in the reign of
Charles XI. In this retreat the queen enjoyed that peace and ie
tranquillity which ufually fly from the palaces of the great. Be-
yond Ulrickfdale nothing occurred that was in the leaft intereft-
ing the whole way to Griflehamn, a diftance from Stockholm of
not lefs than fixty-nine Englifh miles. The face of the country
cannot be faid to be either flat or hilly: it is unequal ground, but
rifing and falling by gentle fwells. The eye, fatigued by the
dazzling whitenefs of the fnow, repofes itfelf with pleafure on the
dark green of the pines, which are often met with throughout
the whole of the journey. What amufed us moft was to fee foxes
here and there ftanding or walking about on the highway with-
out any apparent folicitude for their fafety. We were aftonifhed
to find this quadruped {fo incautious, and fo devoid of that fagacity
and prudence which 1s the characteriftic of the fpecies. The bu-
finefs for which thofe animals come to the highway we difcovered
to be no other than to cat the new-dropped dung of the horfes
that pafled. If, while they were in fearch or poffleffion of this, a
fledge happened to go by, they would only leap over to the other
fide of the ditch, and turn about and keep a conftant eye on the
equipage,
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