F0RT1A ! S TRAVELS IN SWEDEN.
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The Swedifh mile confifts of feet 36,00c, 32,900, 6 miles ^|4ths.
For carpenter’s work, a meafure of a foot of 10 inches, or tumbt, 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 fquarefeet.
At Stralfund
The Pomeranian foot is 125 French lines.
Ell is 258.
In Sweden after meafuring by the ftrike an addition is given to the buyer of fourkappers, on every meafure of wheat, rye, oats, and peas; and fix. kappers upon eachton of fait, or lime.
Chap. XXI. — Route from Stockholm to Upfal, by Gripfholm , Okcr, Eljkiljhma % Skultuna ,
and Wejleros.
WE left Stockholm by the fame road we arrived on coming from Gottenbunr.After croffing the fouthern fuburbs, of a prodigious length and moft wretchedly pavedwe reached Gripfholm by Fitja, Saudertije, and Kumla ; over a fuperb road fix milesand feven eighths in length. Haifa mile beyond Fitja, you have a charming profpe<ftof a lake lying along the left of the road. Half a mile from Sceuderielje , on the left isa handfome chateau , pleafantly fituated on the fide of the lake, belonging to the PrefidentEyriengranat. Before we arrived at Griplholm, we eroded one of the extremitiesof lake Mceler, over a bridge at a place called Layfladt. There it is that the iron andcannon from the foundry of Oker, and the neighbouring forges, are embarked forStockholm . Mr. Vahrendorf had begun building two warehoufes there.
_ Gripfholm is ah ancient royal chateau, to which the court formerly wentvery frequently •it has not been thither fince 1784. The firit court is abfolutely irregular; the build!ing of brick ; a large fewer at the bottom of the court. There are four of them ofunequal fize, and irregularly difpofed. In the firft court are two calverins in bronzefifteen and feven teen feet in length, the caliber feven inches ; we efteemed them forty!eight-pounders. They each weigh eighty-five fchippunds, and were taken from theRuffians in 1581, at the fiege of Iwanogorod, by Baron Pontus de la Gardie : feveraltimes has it been in contemplation to found them. The infcriptions upon them are inRuffian characters, and ftate them to have been cafl: in 7085, and 7087, (1577, andi 579 >) by the Czar Iwan Bafilowitz;- fome marks of (hot which have (truck it are vifi-ble on the fmaller piece. Thence a vault leads into a very fmall court. The interiorof the chateau prefents nothing worthy of notice. In the King’s apartments are twenty-feven portraits of Turkilh Emperors, from Ofman I. who died in 1326, to Abdulhamidthe lad Emperor deceafed. In the bed-chamber is an iron chair, ufed by GuftavusVafa. Above in a tower, is a pretty divan; the walls of it are nine feet thick • it isvery handfomely furniffied, and commands a charming view of the lake. In anothertower 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 fmallwindows with iron bars. The theatre is fmall, but very handfome. It is fupported by-
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