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Befcription o f Stockholm.— Prefentation to the king.— Court.
— New Swedilh drefs.— Publick /uppers.— Royal family.—
— Tombs and characters o f Magnus Ladiflas, Charles Ca-
nutfan, Guitavus Adolphus, Charles XI. and XII.— Royal
Academy o f Sciences.— Its tranfaclions.— Schools.— Con-
oerfation with a Laplander on the generalflate o fL apland.,
— Similarity between the Hungarian and Lapland languages.
r T 'H E foundation o f Stockholm* is, by the belt Svvediih chat.
-*■ writers, generally attributed to Birger Jarl, regent o f n:"
the kingdom about the middle o f the 13th century during
the minority o f his fon Waldemar, who had been raifed to
the. throne by the ftates o f the kingdom 5. but it was not
before the laft century that the royal refidence was transferred
from Upfala to this city.
During the courfe o f my travels, I have feen no town with
whofe fituation I was fo much ftruck as with that o f Stockholm
for its lingular and romantick fcenery. This capital,
which is very long and irregular, occupies, befide two-
peninfulas, feven fmall rocky iilands, fcattered in the Mailer
in the itreams which iffue from that lake, and in a bay o f
the Gulf o f Bothnia. A variety o f contrafted and enchanting
views are formed by numberlefs rocks o f granite riling
boldly from the furface o f the water, partly bare and craggy,.
* T h e reader who is fond o f fuch in . tion o f the ap p ella tion o f Stockholm where--
quir.es, may con fult D anliu s G e fch ich te von h e w ill find h ow many abfurd e t ym o lo g ie s
w ed en^Y o l.- II. p. 178 , upon th e deriva- may be given to th e word Stock s- &
partly