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FORTIA’S TRAVELS IN SWEDEN. 461
was occupied by Guftavus; it is tolerably large, and almoft perfectly fquare, on the two:
fides of the door on the infide, are the two faithful grey Dalecarlians dreft in white wool-
len cloth, and armed from top to toe, with the fugar-loaf hat worn by them at the time;
by the fide of them and near the bed is the faithful domeltic who conftantly followed.
the fortune of Guftavus; he himfelf is in the corner oppofite to the door ftanding armed
under a canopy, in his right hand he hoids his general’s {taff, and his left is placed on a
bible ona table on which are his helmet and gloves; every thing belonging to the bed
has been preferved ; above and on the fides of the door as well as thofe of the bed are
inferiptions in letters of gold analagous to the events of the life of Guftavus I.; near
the bed is the genealogical tree of his houfe, continued to Guftavus III., although his
immediate race was long before extinguifhed; Guftavus III. bearing relation to him
only by the female fide. Around the chamber are fome geographical charts, and rather
coarfe portraits of the Kings and Queens of Sweden from the time of Gultavus Vafa.
You are afterwards {hewn the privy in which he was concealed, and whence he efcaped
to effect the union which afterwards took place at Mora. The lake offers the moft
pleafing point of view imaginable: a curious traveller will not mifs the opportunity of
noticing this houfe, and certainly will find it highly interefting fince it ferved as an
afylum to one of the greateft men who ever graced the threne or human nature.
The tranflators. of the fecond travels of Mr. Coxe, has made him commit a number
of errors in his defcription of this houfe, fuch even as make it doubtful if he were fuf-.
ficiently well. acquainted with the Englifh to have attempted a tranilation. We advife
our readers moreover to give no greater credit to the relation of a Dutch officer, who
affirms (page 165, in 8vo. la Haye, 1789,) ‘that you muft turn out of the highway for
half a mile, and travel over a dreadful_road and frightful mountains in order to arrive
there.” We have before had occafion to point out a number of errors in this work, and
are far from having enumerated the whole. Were the road evenas bad as is defcribed,.
fill would the traveller, if poffefled of a particle of curiofity, feel himfelf induced to vifit
this interefting houfe: it is however no more than a fhort quarter of a league out of the
way, nor are there either frightful rocks or precipices between.
You begin to fell the fulphur at a pretty confiderable diftance from Pablan: : there:
we arrived in the middle of the night, and from the number of open furnaces burning:
for the purpofe of grilling the ore, chele feemed to us a general conflagration. The:
mift over the mouth of the mine is very thick ; the road runs by it and even under the
fpouts of the pumps.
Fahlun, the capital of Dalecarlia, is a town of no great fize, containing but Bat thou–
fand inhabitants. Its charter is ed 30th Odober, 1641: it poffefled charters of earlier
date, that is to fay 1608 and 1624, but thefe were granted, principally that trials might’
be made, and have been amended in the charter firlt mentioned. Vhe church built in
165c, is covered with copper, which covering has already been renewed three times.
‘Vhe traveller, if he be provident, will write beforehand to fome merchant in order to:
procure lodging, (a number of people let apartments at fo much per diem, ) for owing to
the {mall number of itrangers who vifit this place, there is but one inn in the fquare
near the church, which it is true is a tolerably good one, but which may perchan¢e be
full, as we found the cafe. ‘The only objeé of curiofity in this town is the copper mine
and its pertinences: thefe certainly recompenfe you for your trouble, which on our part
we were no ways difpofed to regret. |
The famous mine of Kopparberg is at the diftance of five hundred toifes from the
town : its origin is unknown ; its moft ancient exifting charter is that of Magnus Smek,.
in 1347, which afcertains that there were anterior charters. At different periodsit has
experienced :
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