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444 FORTIA’S TRAVELS IN SWEDEN,
of Apollo and the Chinefe pleafure houfe, in which every thing correfponds with ite
title, are highly deferving of notice : occafionally His Majetty dines here, it is called at
times Canton, which has given name toa fort of village about a quarter of a league from,
the caftle, confilting wholly of country boxes. ‘The King fpends four or five months
at Drottingholm, in a very numerous circle, and the refidence is exceedingly pleafant.
The paflage thither fix years ago was far from pleafant, fince in coming from Stock-
holm, you had to go acrofs the lake which is very wide, and the ferry, always incon-
venient, was fornetimes dangerous. At prefent it is excellent from one end tothe other,,
in many places the road‘is cut out of the rock, and finifhed in every part at a very great
expence. In going to the caftle from Stockholm you pafs over three bridges, the firft of
nine hundred feet, the fecond one thoufand four hundred, and the third, which joins
Drottingholm, feven hundred ; the latter coft 5000 rix-dollars, and was completed in
two and twenty days. In the neighbourhood of this bridge it is that an obelifk of granite
fifty feet in height is to be erected, on the right coming from Stockholm, to comme-
morate the completion of this charming piece of road, a mile * in length from caftle to
caftle, and which fpace the late King was wont to travel over in fixteen or feventeen
minutes. a
Carlberg, near the lake on the north, is, as it were, in the fuburbs of Stockholm,.
which are joined to it by a long alley of trees: the King no longer refides here, and
the Queen but vifits it for a ride; the houfe has little to boaft, the gardens are pleafant.
This houfe was, in 1792, fet apart as a new fchool for cadets.
Swarifieu isa caftle in an ifland of lake Moeler, two miles from the city. It was in-
habited by the Queen Dowager, but fince her death was enipty up to +791, when the
King made a prefent of it to his fifter; it contains nothing worth notice.
Ulriefdal, half a mile from Stockholm on the road to Updfal, is much larger than the
two caltles before mentioned ; the King moftly pays it a vifit once a year: it has nothing
worth notice. ;
Haga is a {mall pavilion, a quarter of a league from the north gate: it is very agree-
ably fituated in midft of woods and on the brink of a lake: within, it is furnifhed under
the direction of Mafrellier, with the greateft elegance, and was the favorite refidence of
the late King, who fpent weeks together here, even in the depth of winter. In 1791 a.
new palace was begun, which was on a magnificent feale. Defpres was the architect,
the foundations were already laid, and it was to be finifhed by, 1796, but whether it has.
been proceeded upon or not, we are ignorant. The beautiful groupe of Cupid and.
Pyfche, which we before have noticed, was to be removed to Haga: for its reception
the King ordered a temple to be built entirely after the antique; it was to forma {quare,
at the bottom was to bea niche, and the light to proceed from above. What poflibly
tended to encreafe the inclination of His Majefty towards this retreat, was the circum-
{tance of the revolution of 1772 being planned in a little corner of the garden, which
is vifited with much intereft. His Majefty has ordered a refervoir to be cut in the rock.
adjoining 2. fmall lake which you pafs along, coming from the city, to furnifh water, and
facilitate the con{trution of jets d’eau and cafcades. It will be a very. handfome piece
_ of work if completed. Vifitors to this fummer-houfe wear a particular uniform, with
which none but perfons of great diftin€tion are favoured by His Majefty.
The Park. ‘This is the moft frequented fpot in the neighbourhood of Stockholm,
on account of its proximity ; it is fituated towards the eaft, without the town on the
fea fide. It is cultomary for folks to repair hither on May-day, the fame as thofe of:
* A Swedith mile, fix and a half.miles Englith,
Co Paris,.
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