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424 FORTIA’s TRAVELS IN SWEDEN.
with the exception of its fellow, in poffeffion of the Emperor, an unique, it weighs about
two carats: topazes, rough rubies, rough emeralds, chryfolites, beryls, aigues marines
in the rough, as well as cut: garnets and hyacinths; amethyfts, chryftals ; he pretends
that amethy{ts are only coloured chryftals. Chryfopafes tranfparent quartz from Fin-
land. Cat’seyes. Cornalines. Onyx, fardines, agates; which however he ranks in
the firft clafs. Jafper, malachites, opals; amethy{ts, toarmalins, and other ftones are
not yet clafled. Mr. Quilt poffefles a piece of regulus of antimony found in Sweden,
extremely rare, fo much fo, that none Is any longer to be found. He has adjoining to
his houfe, a pretty confiderable extent of ground, and a terrace which commands the
fea, whence is a moft fuperb view, fuch even as much furpaffes the moft celebrated in
point of extent and picturefque effect. It is in itfelf enough to induce a traveller to go
to the extremity of the fouthern fuburbs along the fea, where it is fituated, even fhould
he be void of curiofity of examining the collection of ftones.
Mr. Daniel George Nefcher, of Queen’s-ftreet, pofleffes a curious and fingular collec-
tion of portraits of Kings and individuals of Sweden, of all ages; it confifts of about
four thoufand pieces ; at moft, no more than fifty are wanting to render it perfeélly
complete. What renders this collection {till more interefting, the proprietor has writ-
ten at the bottom of each of the portraits of individuals, an account of his life. We
noticed with furprife, that many Swedes had never heard either of Mr. Neicher, or his
collection.
Thus have we given the whole we have to notice of private cabinets, and believe we
have omitted nothing of intereft: the number mutt needs be confidered very trifling ;
yet have we to obferve, that the Swedifh nobility being in general very poor, and very
ill informed, it is not aftonifhing that valuable cabinets fhould be lefs frequent here than
elfewhere ; the firft reafon alone appears to us unan{werable.
Cuar. Vi.—Churches.—Public Edifices.—Statues of Sovereigns. —Arfenal.—Park of
Artillery.—Prifons.
THE churches of Stockholm, confidered as edifices, deferve no attention : the two
following are the only ones worthy of being vifited.
Riddenfholm Church. It is far from handfome, but it may be well to fee it, on ac-
count of its being the place of interment of the kings, a number of the principal families
in Sweden, and all the knights of the order of the Seraphim. At the extremity of the
church, before the altar, are the tombs of Canatefon and Magnus Ladulos, between
them isa {mall clofed coffer, containing the ftatutes of the order of the Seraphim.
Guftavus Adolphus is inhumed in the vicinity, but no monument is yet erected to his
memory; it was then under the workman’s hands. In achapel are Charles XII. with
his club and lion’s tkin, in bronze gilt. Ona bier of black marble, Frederic I. and
Queen Ulrica Eleanor. In another very fmall chapel raifed a few fteps, is the great
Banner, born in 1601, died in 1641: in another fpot, Fortenfon, born in 1603, died
in 1651, and the tombs of the Ferfens, the Levenhaupt, and other families. Gutfta-
vus III. in 1791, formed the projeét of building a rotunda for the Kings, on a plan by
Defpres. :
The Church of Queen Chriftina. This is in the form of a crofs, with a rotunda in
the middle, rather pretty, and very neat; at the principal altar is a bas-relief in plafter,
by Sergell, reprefenting the afcenfion ; it has a very fine effe€l. A monument in lead
by the fame hand, raifed in 1770 to the memory of Defcartes, by the late King, then
Prince
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