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OUTHIER’s JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO THE NORTH. 331
plants, and animals, of fome Laplanders, and their dwellings which M. Herbelot had
defigned, and converfed with much familiarity and benignity with all of us; we took
leave of their Majefties and returned to Stockholm.
Tuefday the fixteenth, M. Clairaut, M. Camus, and myfelf, went to fee the Count de
Teflin; afterwards I went to Mr. Horleman, and to fee Mr. Bentzilius, at the
king’s library. After dinner we employed ourfelves in cleaning the quadrants and other
inftruments which had got wet in the {hip. Wednefday the feventeenth, we put them
in their cafes, and M. de Maupertuis got every thing ready for our departure. For M.
Sommereux and himfelf he had engaged a pailage ina veflel going to Amfterdam ; M.
Herbelot and fome fervants remained at Stockholm, till fome veffel fhould fail for
Rouen, on board which they might fhip the luggage and inftruments. One of the
coaches was prefented to M. Celfius; and the other was defigned to carry Mefirs.
Clairaut, Camus, Le Monnier, and myfelf to Amfterdam, whither M. de Maupertuis
went by fea. ’
Thurfday the eighteenth, at five in the morning M. de Maupertuis departed with
M. Sommereux ; Mefirs. Clairaut, Camus, Le Monnier and myfelf, after taking leave
of the ambaflador, fet off in our coach at fix o’clock. We pafled over two very
fine floating bridges, and by midnight arrived at Soder Talge, and on Friday the nine-
teenth, at eleven in the morning at Nykoping. We did not leave it till fix in the
evening, and arrived on Saturday the twentieth, at four o’clock in the morning at Nord-
koping : it isa large town in which there are many ftone houfes: below a very rapid
cataract which works the wheels of an iron forge we faw agreat number of veflels.
By noon we were at Linkoping, twenty-two miles from Stockholm.
The city of Linkoping is handfome, it is the fee of a bifhop; there is a cathedral,
with a large burial place, which many good houfes look out upon; we lodged in one
which was very neat, and in which we felt ourfelves at eafe, two or three miles before
we arrived at the city, there began a handfome caufeway planted on both fides with
willows. We left Linkoping at feven o’clock, we travelled frequently among rocks
and came near to the fide of the great lake Water. For two miles we continued our
route along its fide, at firft over rocks which furround it, and afterwards under the
rocks along the margin of the lake. We pafled through a village very fmall, and very
poor, oppofite to which, on the top of the mountain the remains of a caftle are diftin-
guifhed, called Brahufs, or good houfe, which had been burnt down ; to judge from it
remains, it mult have been very handfome.
On Sunday the twenty-firft, a quarter of a mile further, below the fame range of
rocks from 160 to 150 toifes from the lake, is the little town of Grenna, thirty miles
from Stockholm. ‘he houfes.are very {mall, and all of wood ; they form two parallel
{ireets, on the fame line as the length of the lake. The largeft of them is very broad
and neareft to the lake ; inthe middle of the ftreet, there is a row of lofty trees which
divides it from beginning to end, and affords a pretty profpect ; it is nearly 300 toifes
long, running N. N. E.; a third part down this {treet towards the N. E. is a pretty re-
gular fquare, fituated between the two {ftreets, into which five or fix little crofs ftreets
fall. ‘The church, the only ftone building, is about two thirds up the great {treet going
towards the S. W. Between the town which is quite at the bottom of the rocks, and
the lake, is a well cultivated country about 150 toifes broad, ftretching along the lake.
‘Thefe are feveral gardens in which cherries are very plentiful, which appeared to us to
be of a good kind. We arrived there at nine o’clock in the morning, and departed at
four in the afternoon.
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