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and an aigrette, or tied up at top as the 

 Swediili country girls do. Hoops are not 

 ufual here. They wear a fort of hood, which 

 fits very clofe ; this they put over their heads 

 when they are in the flreets, but throw it 

 back when they arc in their houfes : two 

 flraps, of a hand's breadth, hang down from 

 it to the feet. If they go to church, a rofary, 

 or p2f.ern01r.er, and a fan, are neceffary to 

 their drefs. 



The Swedifh Conful, Mr. Jacob Bellman, is 

 honoured and beloved by every one, on ac- 

 count of his obliging behaviour. At the gate 

 of his houfe, oppofite to the entrance, the* 

 Swedifh arms are put up : in his rooms were 

 the. portraits cf the late King of Sweden, 

 Frederic, of the prefent King and Queen, 

 and of the Hereditary Prince Guilavus. 



Churches, chapels, convents, and hofpi- 

 rals, are all very fine. The church of white 

 marble, which is not yet finimed, and to the 

 building of which the town pays a certain fum 

 yearly, is the fifkSft and Inrgeit of them all. 

 The fubtcrraneous vaults below this church 

 are almott as large as the entire irruchire of 

 the other churches, and fome corpfes have al- 

 ready 



