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S° Wo ED “RN, 17
a large fpecies of the Flea peculiar to that country,
We continued our Journey the day following and pal-
fed through a barren rocky country, very different from
the laft ftage. There was no entertainment to the eye
for many miles ‘till we came to Stromfholm a Palace be-
longing to the King of Sweden; a very poor manfion for
Royalty indeed, but delightfully fituated upon the lake
Meller, which extends as far as Stockholm. The King’s
Stables in this place are thought magnificent and worth
the traveller’s notice, but inmy opinion the very contra-
ry isthe truth, They are little better than our Yorkfhire
barns. They contain twenty-two horfes which are efteem-
ed beautiful in Sweden. No ftraw is here ufed for bed-
ding, but the horfes lie upon boards. So far I muft
acknowledge from my own obfervation that this method
of treating horfes is preferable to our own, Through all
Sweden and Denmark you feldom fee a lame or founder-
ed horfe, which is not the cafein England. The reafon
undoubtly is, that they are rendered more tender by fland-
ing ona hot-bed produced by their own litter,
On the next day we purfued our Journey to Stockholm
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