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of Apollo and the Chinefe pleafure houfe, in which every thing correfponds with it»title, are highly deferving of notice : occalionally His Majefty dines here, it is called attimes Canton , which has given name to a fort of village about a quarter of a league fromthe caltle, confiding wholly of country boxes. The King.fpends four or five monthsat Drottingholm, in a very numerous circle, and the refidence is exceedingly pleafant.The pafiage thither fix years ago was far from pleafant, fmce in coming from Stocksholm, you had to go acrofs the lake which is very wide, and the ferry, always incon-venient, was fornctimes dangerous. At prefent it is excellent from one end to the otheivin many places the road is cut out of the rock, and finifhed in every part at a very great,expence. In going to the caltle from Stockholm you pafs over three bridges, the firft ofnine hundred feet, the fecond one thoufand four hundred, and the third, which joins.Drottingholm, feven hundred ; the latter colt 5000 rix-dollars, anti was completed itt-two and twenty days. In the neighbourhood of this bridge it is that an obelilk.of granitefifty 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 caltle tocaltle, and which fpace the late King was wont to travel over in fixteen or feventeeftminutes.
Carlberg, near the lake on the north, is, as it were, in the fuburbs of Stockholm ,W'hich are joined to it by a long alley of trees : the King no longer refides here, andthe Queen but vifits it for a ride; the houfe has little to boalt, the gardens are pleafant.This houD was, in 1792, fet apart as a new fchool for cadets.
Swarjim is a eaftle in an ifland of lake Mceler, two miles from the city. It was ini-habited by the Queen Dowager, but fince her death was empty up to 1791* when the.King made a prefent of it to his filter; it contains nothing worth notice.
Ulrie/dal, half a mile from Stockholm on the road to Updfal, is much larger than thetwo cables before mentioned ; the .King moftly pays it a vifit once a year: it has nothingworth notice.
Haga is a fmall pavilion, a quarter of a league from the north gate it is very agree-ably fituated in inidft of woods and on the brink of a lake: within, it is furnifhed under,the direction of Mafrellier, with the greatell elegance, and was the favorite refidence ofthe 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 fmiflied by 1796, but whether it hasbeen 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 form afquare,at the bottom was to be a niche, and the light to proceed from above. What poffiblytended to encreafe the inclination- of His Majefty towards this retreat, was the circum-ftance of the revolution of 1772 being planned in a little corner of the garden, whichis vifited. with much intereft. His Majefty has ordered a refervoir to be .cut in the rockadjoining a fmall lake which you pafs along, coming from the city, to furnilh water, andfacilitate the conftru&ion of jets d’eau and cafcades. It will be a very handfome pieceof work if completed. Vifitors to this fummer.houfe wear a particular uniform, withwhich none but perfons.of great diftin&ion are favoured by His Majefty.
The Park. This is the mold frequented fpot in the neighbourhood of Stockholm ,on account of its proximity ; it is fituated towards the eaft, without the town on thefea fide. It is cuftomary for folks to repair hither on May.-day , the fame as thofe of
A Swedifli mile, fix and a half miles Englifli.
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