eook partly dotted with houfes, or -feathered with wood. The
- harbour is an inlet o f the Baltick: the water is clear as
■cbryftal, and of Rich depth that flups o f the largeft burthen
. can approach the quay, which is o f confiderable breadth,
and lined with fpacious buildings and warehoufes. At the
extremity .of the harbour ieweral ftreets rife one above another
in the form o f an amphitheatre; and the palace, a
magnificent building, .crowns the fummit. Towards the.fea,
about two or three miles from the-town., the harbour is
.contra&ed into a narrow .ftrait, and, winding among high
rocks, difappears from the fight; and the profp.eit is .terminated
hy tdihant hills, overfpread with for eft. ft is far
beyond the power o f words, or o f the pencil, to delineate
thefe fingular view’s. The central ifland, from which the city
derives its name, and the Ritterholm, are the handfomeit
parts o f the town.
Excepting in the fuburbs, where the houfes are o f wood
painted red, the generality o f the buildings are o f ftone, or
brick ftuccoed white. The royal palace, which Hands in thp
center o f Stockholm, and upon thelhigheft fpot o f ground,
was begun by Charles X I .: it is a large quadrangular ftone
edifice, and the ttyle of architecture is both elegant and magnificent.
Feb. 23. At feven in the evening we accompanied the
Englilh minifter,SirThomaS Wroughton, tocourt, to havethe
honour o f being prefented to Quftavus III. All the company
in the drawing-room, the foreign minifters and ourfelves excepted,
wore the national habit lately introduced into this
country by his prefent majefty. The drefs o f the men refem-
bles the old Spanifh, and eonfifts of a ihort coat, or rather
jacket, a waiftcoat, a cloak, a hat with a feather a la Hepry.IF•
a faih round the waift, a fword, large and full breeches,
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