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374 FORTIA’S TRAVELS IN SWEDEN.
Fableau de la Suede, by Catteau. 2volss This is a rapid fketch, very well written.
Abrege de Vhiftoire de Suede, par Lagerbring. 1 vol. We know not why an
abridgement was given in the tranflation, rather than the work at large: the latter
might have been ufeful, whereas by the manner in which the fucceflion of events is con-
tracted in the abridgement,"it is good for nothing.
Anecdotes of the Court of Sweden, 1789. vol. This work treats of fuch individu-
als alone as were then inexiftence. ‘The refemblances are good and the relations juft ;
the work hewever is lefs pleafing than one would expect, arifing poflibly from its fpeak-
ing well ofall.
Travels in Sweden by a Dutch Officer (M: Dreven). 1 vol. in 8vo. 1789. This
work is full of errors and inaccuracies: from a number of paflages one is induced to
imagine that the author wrote from memory ; for what he defcribes exifts, yet frequent-
ly far from the fpot he mentions; and fometimes he has feen things feen by no one
elfe. -
In our firft volume we {poke of works treating of the ftates of the North. Our
readers will perceive that we have left a number of articles as they were compofed in
1791, before the death of Gu/tavus III, of glorious memory.
ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER,
Throughout the work the meafures, weights, and money, are Swedifh, except
where otherwife defcribed ; with the value of thefe the reader may make himfelf ac-
quainted by reference to Chapter XIX. in which it is given, in Englifh meafures,
weight, and money, as well as in French.
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TRAVELS OF TWO FRENCHMEN IN THE NORTH OF EUROPE.
Cuap. 1.—Entrance into Sweden.—Neceffary Precautions for thofe who travel in that
Kingdom.—Helfinburg.—The Province of Scania.—Carlfcroon.—lts Naval Arfenal.—
Tis Docks. —Road from Carlfcroon to Gottenburg through Smaland.—Gottenburgh. — Its
Ho/pitalTrade—Herringfi/oery—and Cuftoms.—The Landing of the Danes.—Mar-
Strand.
IT frequently takes an hour to pafs.the Sound ; we croffed it in two and thirty mi-
nutes. The landing charges are, for a berlin, a rix-dollar; for a chariot, forty fkil-
lings, which fum includes the whole expence to the inn: you pay alfo for every
trunk, but however heavy your luggage the charge will feldom exceed 2 rix-dollars.
In proportion to the facility and convenience of embarkation is the difficulty and dan-
ger of unfhipping carriages, as there is neither jetty, quay, nor crane, and nothing but
{ome wretched wooden {ftairs, with heaps of ftones at the foot, which prevent the boat
from reaching them. The appearance of the Danifh coaft is much more beautiful than
that of Sweden. i
The traveller muft take care to provide himfelf with {mall notes, as he will oftentimes
find it difficult to procure change even for one of 12 fkillings, and efpecially if it be not a
bank
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