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REGNARD’S JOURNEY TO LAPLAND. 143
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generally happened in the winter feafon, during which time the King, withing to
amufe himfelf, orders a Virfchat throughout the whole court, and forms one of the
party.
The whole court appears in different trades, with dreffes appropriate to the
bufinefs which they profefs, and which has fallen to their lot. The King of Denmark
himfelf appeared at the laft, in the charaéter of a coalman; and we were told that
nothing can be more entertaining than this kind of mafquerade. It is not practifed
in Denmark only, but is alfo prevalent in Sweden, and throughout all Germany.
It is worthy of obfervation, that juftice is extremely well diftributed in Denmark ;
and that every year, a chamber is held ‘for the purpofe of determining appeals
from all the courts of the kingdom, which continues to fit till all the bufinefs is
terminated.
The King of Denmark’s guard confifts of infantry and cavalry, dreffed in blue
turned up with red, and a large cloak of the fame colour. He has always forty
thoufand men in arms, who are paid by the provinces, both in peace and war; and
thofe which are the moft wealthy furnifh two regiments, one of infantry and the other
of cavalry.
JOURNEY TO SWEDEN.
Genealogy of the Kings of Sweden, from the Days of Guftavus the Firft.
Guftavus of Wafa.
John III. who married Charles IX.
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Sigifmond King of — Guftavus Adolphus Catherine of Vafa who was
Sweden and Poland. married to John Caflimir,
Count Palatine of the
Rhine, of the branch of
Deux Ponts.
Chritting who abdicated
the Kingdom, in the |
year 1644.
Charles Guftavus the The Prince Adolphus. Margaret Eleonora, who
X., who married was married to Magnus-
Hedwige Eleonora, Gabriel of La Gardie,
daughter of — the Riftrofe.
Duke of Holftein.
Charles XI. the prefent monarch, married Ulrica Eleonora, fifter of the King of
Denmark, by whom he had a daughter, his firft child, in July, 1681.
That country at” prefent denominated Sweden, was anciently called Scandia or
Scandinavia, and is little elfe, if we may fay fo, than an ifland which {tretches betwixt
the Ocean, the Baltic Sea, and the Gulf of Bothnia.
This province is not extremely fertile throughout. Lapland is fterility itfelf; and
this people, whom I have had the curiofity to vifit at the end of the world, are equally
deftitute of bodily and mental food, having neither corporeal nor {piritual nourifhment.
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