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(1789) [MARC] Author: Matthew Consett
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134 A TOUR THROUGH

provifions which, at the beft, are but fcanty, were all con-
{umed before our arrival at the feveral ftages, fo that from
fix on friday morning the 21ft. we travelled. till faturday
morning without food or fleep, except a very {mall por-
tion (accidentally met with) of hard falt Swedifh beef,
Delicious morfel ! and of great relief after folong a faft.
Our additional troubles were, as ufual, want of horfes as
well as want of beds,

sia eos ep Tey oa

"About Eleven in the morning of Saturday the ed, we
arrived at Helfingborga pretty town garrifoned by Swe-
difh Huzzars and fituated on the fide of the narrow
Streight, known by the name of the Sound, on the coaft
oppofite Elfinore. There is afmall fortified Caflle at this
place, in which, as T was informed, there is a Dungeon an
hundred and feventy five feet deep. In thisdifmal prifon
many of the Danifh Nobility were confined and numbers
‘of them fuffered to perifh during the long and deftruciive

Wars between thofe neighbouring Kingdoms.

The Governor very politely waited upon us and gave
us

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