yOR.TIA*S TRAVELS IN SWEDEN.
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miles through the foreft in order to reach lake Tiomotis, which is five miles in length ;this muil be traverfed in the dire&ion of the Alps , which are diftinguifhable at the dis-tance of eight or ten miles by their funimits covered with fnow; he will next fee a rockof extraordinary height, and which on account of itsrefemblance is denominated thepulpit. A little farther he will notice the beautiful cafcade Cafcawari , (defcribed fiftyyears ago in the A£la Upfal,) precipitated with great noife juft at the brink of the lake.At length he will reach Quickjock , another church of this province ; it is fituated at thefoot of the Alps , in fuch a pleafant fpot during the hummer, that the learned author ofthe celebrated Atlantica was thence induced to place the terreftial paradife within thefrozen zone, (the reftor’s name is Ohrftrceum.) If defirous of crofting the Alps , thetraveller now muft afcend the firft mountain, the moll lofty of the whole, it is calledWalliwari: the afcent is nearly a mile. From the fummit of this mountain he willhave mod extenfive and pieturefque views of the whole province. From Walliwariyou look down as on an immenfe map, and diftinguifh beneath you the tops of theAlps , at times enveloped in clouds.
It requires at leaft ten or twelve days to crofs the Alps and arrive in Norway , onwhich journey he muft abfolutely travel on foot for eighteen miles, and provide himfelfwith a tent and provifions. Scattered about here and there he will meet with fome ofthe Laplanders with their flocks in the molt fertile valleys ; but occafionally from theirerratic life, he may meet with none. After crofting the Alps , their mountains of fnow,Iheir mafifes of ice, their deep rivers, &c. he enters Norway at the 68° of latitude, andfinally arrives at the North fea.
Chap. XIV.— A Summary of the Hijlory of Sweden frofii Gujlavus Vafa, to the Afcenfton
to the Throne of Gujlavus III.
AS it forms no part of our plan to fpeak of the kingdoms of the North previous totheir obtaining confideration in the political balance of Europe , we Ihall begin with thereign of the great Guftavus Vafa, under whom Sweden firft faw herfelf finally releafedfrom a foreign yoke, and left to her own powers.
Gujlavus , the liberator of his country u'hofe gratitude adjudged him the crown, wasborn of an illuftrious family in 1490. His father Eric Vafa , was murdered in the hor-rible maflacre at Stockholm on the 8th November, 1520. His great foul was whollyintent afterwards on avenging his father, and freeing the country from the tyrant be-neath whofe fcourge it withered. After wandering about a length of time in Dalecar-lia, and efcaping a thoufand dangers, he had the good fortune to mufter fufficient forceto make himfelf mafter of feveral towns, and finally to drive the Danes from Sweden in1523, yet not without a number of battles in the two years it took him to eflfeQ: his ob-ject. Previoufly nominated adminiftrator of the ftate, this year he was made King atthe diet of Strengnces, and honoured with a title which he had fo juftly deferved, heentered his capital in triumph. Notwithftanding his power was unlimited, he governed.Sweden rather as a father than a mafter. The Dalecarlians indeed revolted feveral timesin his reign, to fubdue whom he was obliged to ufe rigorous meafures, which he exer-cifed likewife towards two fenators guilty of rebellion. At the council of CEurebro iitx529, the Roman catholic religion was entirely aboliftied, and the creed of Augfbourgvol. vi. 3 Q received