Travels Into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark: Interspersed with Historical Relations and Political Inquiries : Illustrated with Charts and Engravings, Volume 2T. Cadell, 1785 - Europe, Northern |
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Page 136 - ... with a small winch, with as little labour as it takes to wind up a jack, though the weight of the iron, tin, and wooden circle, is about a thousand pounds. When it is made use of, a planetarium will be placed in the middle thereof. The whole, with the floor, is well-supported by a frame of large timber.
Page 476 - Prefect, or King of Jutland, was married to Geruthra, or Gertrude, daughter of Ruric king of Denmark, by whom he had a fon, called Amlettus, or Hamlet. Fengo murders his brother Horwendillus, marries Gertrude, and afcends the throne. Hamlet, to avoid his uncle's jealoufy, counterfeits folly ; and is reprefented...
Page 329 - honour to ferve the king in quality of page on that night when he was " killed. I have no doubt that he was afiaflinated.
Page 471 - Sweden wind agreeably through the country, are made with ftone or gravel, and are as good as our turnpikes in England > and yet not a fingle toll is exacted from the traveller. Each landholder is obliged to keep in repair a certain part of the road in proportion to his property; and, for the purpofe of afcertaining their...
Page 473 - During her confinement (he inhabited the governor's apartment, and had permiffion to walk upon the fide-batteries, or upon the leads of the tower. She was uncertain of the fate that awaited her ; and had great reafon to apprehend, that the party which had occafioned her arreft meditated ftill more violent meafures.
Page 136 - Upon the iron meridians is fixed a zodiac of tin painted blue, whereon the ecliptic and heliocentric orbits of the planets are drawn, and the constellations and stars traced: the Great and Little Bear and Draco are already painted in their places round the...
Page 305 - ... of too delicate a nature to be publicly mentioned, terminated at length in an open rupture. Her majefty died at Stockholm in the month of July, 1782. Agreeably to my ufual attention to tombs and monuments, I did not omit paying a vifit to the fepulchres of the kings of Sweden, whofe remains are interred in the church of Riddarholm. The firft of thefe...
Page 135 - ... the northern ends of which are screwed to a large round plate of brass, with a hole in the centre of it; through...
Page 512 - The language was the old Gothic or Teutonic, the vernacular tongue of the Swedes, Danes, and Norwegians, before it branched into the several dialects since spoken by the natives of the three kingdoms.
Page 462 - I may fo exprefs myfelf), one above the other: upon the wooden tefters of the beds in which the women lie, are placed others for the reception of the men, to which they afcend by means of ladders.