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37 FORTIA’S TRAVELS IN SWEDEN»
obliged to furnifh a feparate apartment with one or two beds for travellers. We found,
indeed, at fome of the poft-houfes in the interior, that this law was but indifferently ob-
ferved, yet fuch inftances were very rare. Provided with a fervant who may fpeak the
Swedifh language you will avoid much inconvenience. In Sweden you may travel with-
out any apprehenfion, in-perfect fafety, either by night or day. Unlefs the froft be well
fet in, efpecial care fhould be taken to prevent the poftillions quitting the high road ;
they are conftantly difpofed to take the fhorteft cut, to fave a quarter of a mile or lefs,
driving over lakes not fufficientiy frozen, or which begin to thaw. As thefe are fre-
quently covered with fnow, you fometimes fink into, without perceiving, them. Accidents
of this defcription are fo common in Sweden that the number of perfons annually drown-
ed thus by imprudence, is rated at two thoufand.
All the houfes out of the towns are built of wood, and this even in Sania, notwith-
ftanding the contrary affertion of Le Voyageur Hollandais. Many confitt of the ground-
floor alone. A houfe of this defcription, of a good fize, cofts a hundred rix-dollars
building.
Helfinburg is an extremely {mall town, fuch as elfewhere would rank asa village; it
contains at moft but twelve hundred inhabitants. On arriving at the poft office at Hel-
finburg, you fhew your paffport. ‘They are not very {trict at the cuftom-houfe ; if you
give a note of 24 {killings to the officer, he will be fatisfied without examining your
trunks.
From Helfinburg to Carl{croon is twenty-three miles and a half. Chriftianftadt is a
{mall town tolerably well fortified ; the King’s regiment 1s there in garrifon. In 1772
the revolution began in this town, owing to which, Colonel Hellicius, who commanded
there, obtained the name of * Gu/tafafhiold (Gultavus’s fhield). Chri/tian/tadt is famous
for its manufacture of gloves.. As you leave the town you pafs over a raifed caufy
of fome length, made over the marfhes, which on this fide render the town difficult of
accefs, from the facility with which they may be inundated. Car//ham is a {mall town,
badly paved, yet pretty regularly built of wood. You pafs the limits of Scania, which
you will have traverfed, before you arrive at Nory, and enter Bleking. The divifion of
the two provinces is denoted by two boundaries of granite, on which the arms of each
are engraven, and by a fmall {tream which runs a few paces from the fpot.
‘Scania is the mildeft of all the provinces in Sweden, the horfes, oxen, and all ani-
mals are larger and ftronger in this part than in any other. Many gentlemen pafs the
fummer, and fome live here all the year ; but a ridiculous pride diminifhes the pleafure
which otherwife might be enjoyed from refiding in the province. ‘The vifits of gentle-
amen are always vifits of ceremony, in which they are accompanied by a number of fer-
vants, and horfes, that are all maintained by their hoft for feveral days. After making
a tour in this manner, they return to their homes, and live in feclufion during the reft
of the year. Their nobility is fo {trongly grafted on their minds that they pay no regard
to women of the fecond clafs, even though they fhould be married to men of the high-
eft rank. The fea coaft is extremely pleafant owing to the different profpects it affords,
which are fuperior to thofe onthe fhores of Zeeland. Here is fituated the greater part
of the houfes of the nobility; yet along the high road we did not diftinguifh a fingle
one worthy of remark. On every fide, as you proceed, are blocks of granite laying on,
the ground, or in rocks, and trees which have {plit the ftone in working themfelves a
* Kili in Swedish, found like chi chi in Englith; /Ri as /chi.
paffage
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