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442 FORTIA’S TRAVELS IN SWEDEN.
haje ; lacerta tigrina, azurea, hifpea, teguixin, barbara, /tellio ; teftudo ferpentina Amboi-
nenfis ; rana lactea, marginata, cornuta, gibbofa; tetraodon lineatus, ocellatus ; et pegafus
volitans. Of filhes: gobius aphya, niger ; chatodon ciliaris, capiftratus; arcuatus ; fciana
bimaculata; zeus vomer, fpinofus ; uranofcopus pictus ; calichytys tamoata ; labnis julii,
paroticus, niloticus, aut Nilis lufcus ; pleuronectes ocellatus, limanda ; gymnotus pinguis ;
perca labrax, nilatica, coftoides, vittata, fcriba ; trigla cucullus ; cobitis anableps ; filurus
myftus, anguillaris, undecimalis, clarias ; falmo niloticus ; efox [phyrena ; atherina Srepfe-
tus ; clypea my/tus, cyprinus, niloticus, dentex ; et mormyrus cyprinoides, anguilloides. Of
infects, many /carabei from America; /carabeus facer, gigas, fcaber, longipes, Syriacusy
ceratonia, carmatus ; chryfolomela facra ; curculio Indus, pufio, vaginalis, difpar, argyreus,
Speciofus, cornutus, Capenfis, et. attelabus, fipylus ; many Cerambyces allo from Ame-
rica; the elater Syriacus, meloé Syriacus, blatta Agyptiaca, gryllus gongylodes, Agyp=
tius ; and a number of others, among them, cimex Arabs, ferratus, bipunttatus Aigyp-
tiacus. Of butterflies, a very fine collection, which gave rife to a highly efteemed work
from the pen of Mr. Clerk. A number of cray fith, of very fingular and various {pecies.
Of thells: Lepas mitella, myaperna, vulfella, folen‘cultellus, radiatus, aratinus ; a folaris,
two inches and ‘a half in diameter; #ellina gargadiagari ; cardium coftatum, cardiffa;
donan fortum ; venus zigzag ; /pondylus regius ; chama cordiformus ; arca glycimeris ; oftrea
pallium, felis, pes, opercularis, ifognomon malleus ; mytilus frons ; pinna digiti, formis, jac-
cata, lobata ; a conus princeps, of two inches, extremely rare ; a number of harps, one
of which three inches and a half long ;. ammiralis fummus /pecirum ; bulla ampulla, phyfis
canalicula folidalis ; voluta porphyria, pertufa, Aithiopica ; ftrombus latiffimus, epidromis,
urceus, ater ; trochus telefcopius ; aturbo perfonatus, fcalaris, of nearly two inches ; helix
hyanthena, amarula, haliotcidea ; nerita canvena, albamen, corona ; haliotis. marmorata,
parva, patella, porcelana, anguis; ferpula lumbricalis anguina ; a mitella, very rare, and
an argonaut of eight inches.. The collection of corals, millepores, madrepores, and fubi-
pores, from the Baltic, Red, and Indian feas, is very perfect. ‘The collection of minerals
very feleé&t. A large mummy in good prefervation, of unufual fize.. Among the col-
le€tion of plants is that made by Mr. Haffe/qui/?, in the Levant, and particularly in Pa-
leftine, and that made by Mr. Kalm in North America. ‘The cabinet contains a {mall
library of analogous books.
The Queen’s apartments are not very numerous, they confift of three rooms and an
audience chamber, all of them furnifhed after the antique. ‘The audience chamber is
full of paintings by Ebrenfrall; fix of them are large, and reprefent an allegorical feries
of the hiftory of Sweden, in which the reign of Charles XI. is moft particularly diftin-
guifhable; the ceiling is beautiful. In a hall adjoining are feven portraits and two hif-
torical paintings. In the gallery, ten large pictures and two above the door, feverally
reprefenting battles of Charles Guftavus. In the jit above the door, Charles X. with
feveral gentlemen in his fuite, f{urrounded by Polifi coflacks, cutting their way through
them; neither time nor place are defignated. In the /econd, nothing is to be feen but
heaps of dead, and troops engaging. Near the oppofite door, the battle of Colembo,
which took place on the 8th February, 1656, and in which Charles X. gained a coms
plete victory over the Poles. Next the door, in a large painting the battle of Gne/na
is reprefented; fought on the 27th April, 1756, and in which Duke Adoiphus John, as
Generalliffimo, defeated the Polith army, and obtained confiderable booty. Of four
large pictures which fucceed, the firft reprefents the battle of Philippovo, on the 12th
October, 1656, in which General Gultavus Otto Stenboek defeated the Lithuanian army
and -ten thoufand Tartars ; the three others the battle of Warfaw, in 1656, on the 18th,
roth, and zoth July, in which Charles X. entirely routed the Polifh army. Four pic-
tures
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