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with the exception of its fellow, in poffeffion of the Emperor , an unique, it weighs abouttwo carats : topazes, rough rubies, rough emeralds, chryfolites, beryls, aigues marinesin the rough, as well as cut: garnets and hyacinths ; amethyfts, chrvftals ; he pretendsthat amethyfts are only coloured chryftals. Chryfopafes tranfparent quartz from Fin-land. Cat’s eyes. Cornalines. Onyx , fardines, agates ; which however he ranks inthe firft clafs. Jafper, malachites, opals ; amethyfts, toarmalins, and other (tones arenot yet claffed. Mr. Quid 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 tohis houfe, a pretty confiderable extent of ground, and a terrace which commands thefea, whence is a mod fuperb view, fuch even as much furpaffes the mod celebrated inpoint of extent and pidturefque effeCt. It is in itfelf enough to induce a traveller to gt>to the extremity of the fouthern fuburbsalong the fea, where it is fituated, even ihouldhe -be void of curiofity of examining the colle&ion of ftones.
Mr. Daniel George Nefcher, of Oueen’s-ftreet, poffefles a curious and lingular collec-tion of portraits of Kings and individuals of Sweden , of all ages •, it conflfts of about•four thoufand pieces; at moft, no more than fifty are wanting to render it perfectly•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. Wenoticed with furprife, that many Swedes had never heard either of Mr. Nefcher, or his-collection.
Thus have, we given the whole we have to notice of private cabinets, and believe wehave omitted nothing of intereft : the number mull needs be confidered very trifling ;yet have we to obferve, that the Swedifh nobility being in general very poor, and veryill informed, it is not aftonilhing that valuable cabinets fhould be lefs frequent here thanelfewhere j the firft reafon alone appears to us unanfwerable.
Chap. VI.— Churches.—Public Edifices.—Statues of Sovereigns. — Arfenal.—Park of
Artillery. — Prifons.
THE churches of Stockholm , confidered as edifices, deferve no attention : the twofollowing are the only ones worthy of being vifited.
Riddenjholm 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 familiesin Sweden , and all the knights of the order of the Seraphim. At the extremity of thechurch, before the altar, are the tombs of Canatefon and Magnus Ladulos, betweenthem is a fmall 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 hismemory ; it was then under the workman’s hands. In a chapel are Charles XII . withhis club and lion’s flcin, in bronze gilt. On a bier of black marble, Frederic I. andQueen Ulrica Eleanor . In another very fmall chapel raffed a few fteps, is the greatBanner , born in 1601, died in 1641 : in another fpot, Fortenfon, born in 1603, diedin 1651, and the tombs of the Ferfens, the Levenhaupt, and other families. Gufta-vus III. in 1791, formed the projeCt of building a rotunda for the Kings, on a plan byDefpres.
The Church of Queen Chrfiina. This is in the form of a crofs, with a rotunda inthe middle, rather pretty, and very neat; at the principal altar is a bas-relief in plafter,by Sergell, reprefenting the afeenfion ; it has a very fine effeCl. A monument in leadby the fame hand, raffed in 1770 to the memory of Defcartes, by the late King, then
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