BOOK
VU.
« Huns, although the precife time in which they feparated
■“ from the other branches o f that numerous nation cannot
■*’* be afcertained.” He ventures, however, to conjecture, that
fom e o f thofe people penetrated into thefe regions long before
the Huns, under Attila and his fucceflbrs, occupied Pan-
nonia, fince called from them Hungary } that they probably
inhabited the fouthera parts o f Sweden, and being driven
towards the north by the Goths under Oden, retired to
the almoft impervious mountains and inclement cold o f Lapland,
where they were no longer purfued by their invaders.
Being fettled in thofe parts, their language, by a perpetual
intercourfe with the Swedes and Norwegians, became gradually
intermixed with foreign words, and fplit into different
d ia le r s ; ftill retaining, however, evident traces o f the original
fpoken by the Huns * , o f whom they were a branch.
■* The Hans,, before they penetrated Into «nd Efthonia a language ftmllar to the F!n-
HuDgary, iahabited the inland part, o f Si. ntlh ftill exift», a, wbU a, among feveral
heria, and from thofe quarters theyprobably tribes o f Siberia, an idiom which has great
paired through European Ruffia, Livonia, affinity svith the Hungarian, ftill prevails,;
Efthonia, Finland, and Sweden, In Livonia
C H A P .
C H A P. III.
Arfenal (»/'Stockholm.— Clothes and'hat worn by Charles XII.
when he was killed at the Jiege o f Frederickihall.— Inquiry
into the circumjlances and occajion o f bis death.
THE arfenal o f Stockholm contains an immenfe number c h a p .
o f ftandards and trophies, taken chiefly from the Im- ■ “J’
perialifts, Poles, Ruffians, and Danes. Many o f thefe Hand,
ards were fupplied by Guftavus Adolphus, Banier,Torftenfon,
and Wrangel, by Charles Guftavus, but principally by
Charles XII. whofe military atchievements proved the ruin
of his c o u n t r y n o r could I avoid remarking, that while this
collection proudly displayed the trophies o f Narva, the Ruffians
poflefs Narva itfelf, with all Livonia, and' other provinces
difmembered from Sweden.
Among other curiofities, I obferved the ikin o f the horfe
fluffed which carried Guftavus Adolphus at the battle of:
Lutzen, where he received his death ; a boat made by. Peter
the Great at Sardam in Holland, and taken by a Swedifh
veflel as it was conveying by fea to Peterfburgh ; and, what
particularly attracted my notice, the clothes and hat worn by
Charles XII. when he was ihot in the trenches before Fre-
dericklhall. As many various reports have been fpread
relative to the death o f that monarch, and as proofs that he-
was affaffinated have been attempted to be drawn from ther
ftate of thofe clothes, and particularly o f his hat, I examinedl
diem with peculiar attention.
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