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FORTIA’S TRAVELS IN SWEDEN. 539
French. Englifh.
The Swedifh mile confifts of feet 36,coc, 32,500, 6 miles +2.3ths.
For carpenter’s work, a meafure of a foot of 10 inches, or tumbs, in length, is ufed,
divided into 10 lines, which are again fub-divided into ten other parts.
The tuna, a meafure ufed in carpenter’s work, is 46,772 fquare feet.
At Stralfund
The Pomeranian foot is 125 Frtnch lines.
Ell is-258.
In Sweden after meafuring by the ftrike an addition is given to the buyer of four
kappers, on every meafure of wheat, rye, oats, and peas; and fix kappers upon each
ton of falt, or lime.
Cuap. XXI.— Route from Stockholm to Upfal, by Grip/holm, Oker, Elilfuna, Skultuna,
and Weftcros.
WE left Stockholm by the fame road we arrived on coming from Gottenburg.
After crofling the fouthern fuburbs, of a prodigious length and moft wretchedly paved,
we reached Gripfholm by Fitja, Seudertilje, and Kumla ; over a fuperb road fix miles
and feven eighths in length. Halfa mile beyond Fitja, you havea charming profpeét
of a lake lying along the left of the road. Half a mile from Seudertelje, on the left is
a handfome chateau, pleafantly fituated on the fide of the lake, belonging to the Prefident
Eyriengranat. Before we arrived at Gripfholm, we croffed one of the extremities
of lake Mceler, over a bridge ata place called Layftadt. There it is that the iron and
cannon from the foundry of Oker, and the neighbouring forges, are embarked for
Stockholm. Mr. Vahrendorf had begun building two warehoufes there.
Grip/bolm is an ancient royal chateau, to which the court formerly wentvery frequently ;
it has not been thither fince 1784. The firft court is abfolutely irregular; the build-
ing of brick; a large tower at the bottom of the court. ‘There are four of them of
unequal fize, and irregularly difpofed. In the firft court are two calverins in bronze,
fifteen and feventeen feet in length, the caliber feven inches ; we efteemed them forty-
eight-pounders. ‘They each weigh eighty-five {chippunds, and were taken from the
Ruffians in 1581, at the fiege of Iwanogorod, by Baron Pontus de la Gardie: feveral
times has it been in contemplation to found them. The infcriptions upon them are in
Ruffian characters, and ftate them to have been caft in 7085, and 70875 (1577, and
1579,) by the Czar Iwan Bafilowitz; fome marks of fhot which have ftruck it are vifi-
ble on the fmaller piece. Thence a vault leads into a very fmall court. The interior
of the chateau prefents nothing worthy of notice. In the King’s apartments are twenty-
feven portraits of Turkifh Emperors, from Ofman I. who died in 1326, to Abdulhamid,
the laft Emperor deceafed. In the bed-chamber is an iron chair, ufed by Guftavus
Vafa.. Above in a tower, is a pretty divan; the walls of it are nine feet thick $ itis
very handfomely furnifhed, and commands a charming view of the lake. In another
tower is an apartment in which Eric XIV. was confined for two years ; it is of an irre-
gular figure, and feventeen feet long at its greateft length ; it is lighted by three {mall
windows with iron bars. The theatre is fmall, but very handfome. It is {upported by
322 fixteem
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