b o o k Hate with the furniture of the laft century. I noticed feveral
■ - _ ■ fine portraits; a head of Hedwige herfelf at a very advanced age j
another, of Chriilina, three quarters lize, leaning one hand upon a
: lion’s head, well painted, with great expreffion of countenance;
a Hill finer piiture, whole length, of Charles the Twelfth, in
the ninth year of his age, leaning alfo upon a noble lion’s
head: the painter is the Swediih Ehrenfahl. Charles is here
reprefented as a moil beautiful boy: both his phyfiognomy
and, appearance are foft and effeminate, and, except in the luilre
of his eye, by no means charadteriflic of his fubfequent cha-
; rafter.
This palace gives its name to the canal now forming between
•the lakes on the confines of Dalecarlia and the Maeler, with the
following intention.
. As the iron and copper from the mines of Weilmanland and
Dalecarlia, are conveyed by land to the lake Maeler, before they”
can be forwarded by water to Stockholm j the tranfport of fuch
heavy goods is of courfe exceedingly expenlive. Accordingly a
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plan was projefted to render the waters navigable from the So-
dra Barken, a lake on the confines of Dalecarlia, to the lake Fre-
den, which communicates with the Maeler, or in other Words to
form an inland navigation from the confines of Dalecarlia to
Stockholm.
The waters which join the Sodra Barken and the Freden,
confiil of numerous lakes and rivers, which, flowing through a
xocky countiy, fall in repeated catarafls, are full of Ihoals, and
extremely