cafioned by a fubterraneous eommunication with the lake of
Conftance, in Switzerland; for it had been difcovered, by a regular
feries of correfpondence and obfervation, that when the
waters of one lake arofe, thofe of the other fell in the fame proportion
; and that frequently the waters of the Wetter were violently
agitated without the leaft wind, or any apparent caufe,
until information arrived, that at that very time the lake of Conftance
had been difturbed by a tempeft. The perfon who gave
me this information further added, in favour of this phsenome-
non, that fimilar plants were obferved to grow fpo'ntaneoufly in
the neighbourhood of each lake; and that the fame fiih were like-
wife caught in both lakes.
On my arrival at Wadftena I found a gentleman, to whom I
had a letter, ftrongly imprefled with the truth of this account,
and particularly affirming, that a feries of correfpondence and obfervation
had eftabliihed its truth. But when I requefted a fpe-
cific proof, I found that his affertion was principally grounded
on tradition ; and that no correfpondence on the fubjeét had
been carried on by any perfon now alive, but by the great-grandfather
of fome inhabitant of Wadftena.
I ihould not have thought this idle ftory worthy of mention,
if the fait had not been pofitively affirmed by perfons of fome
note at Copenhagen ; if it was not the generally received opinion
at Wadftena; and if fome travellers had not been fufficiently im-
pofed upon to relate it in their travels.
At Mótala, we crolfed the river of the fame name, which iflues '
from
from the Wetter, and is not navigable for the fmalleft veflels,
and foon arrived at Medwi, the Swedilh Spa.
Medwi is pleafantly fituated in a gently waving and richly
wooded country. The lodging-houfes form one ftreet of uniform
wooden buildings painted red. The walks and rides are delightful,
particularly to the banks of the Wetter. The waters
of the Spa are vitriolic and fulphureous.
The regulations of this place feem more calculated for the accommodations
of the fick who come to drink the waters, than
for the company who affemble forpleafure. Between five and fix in
-the morning the company are awakened by the ringing of a large
bell, when they ufually rile, drink the waters, breakfaft, ride
out, or walk. Precifely at twelve dinner is ferved in a large hall,
to which all the company repair. After dinner they play at cards
till five, when they take their afternoon’s airing. At feven
fupper is ferved in the fame hall; at nine the bell rings, the
gates are ihut, no carriages are admitted, and the company
moftly retire to bed.
We had purpofed palling a week at Medwi, but the feafon
being paft, and the company gone, excepting a few invalids, we
continued our journey to Stockholm, through Linkioping and
Nordkioping.
Having repafled the Motala, we afcended an eminence, and
defcended into the largeft and moft cultivated plain I had yet
feen in Sweden, fertile in corn and pafture, bounded by a ridge
of hills, whofe fides and fummits are prettily wooded, and whofe
feet