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on their minds, so that they were never afterAvards them- 

 selves again. 



Thus fell Kungahall, the herrl/pa, or beautiful, as it 

 was called, to rise no more to its former flourishing con- 

 dition. But the capture of the place cost the victors dear, 

 two-thirds of the heathen, as it is supposed, having fallen 

 in the conflict. The immense assemblage of human bones 

 recently found on the battle-ground, and which it is painful 

 to state were sent to this country to enrich our fields, testify, 

 indeed, to the great slaughter on the occasion. 



MARSTRAND. 



Marsrand, famous for its fortress, its capacious and 

 excellent harbour, and its fine lighthouse, which is situ- 

 ated at about thirty (English) miles to the north-west of 

 Gothenburg, is also deserving of the traveller's notice. 

 Fornaerly, the rocky island on which the town is built was 

 called Jlcise-sfrai/d, or the Sea-gulls' Strand, from the 

 number of those birds frequenting it ; but the deriva- 

 tion of its present name is wrajiped in mystery ; some 

 saying it comes from Mare, the sea, but others, from 

 the circumstance of a high-born maiden, who had been 

 wrecked off the coast, having been drifted to land on the 

 mast of the ill-fated vessel. 



This catastrophe is said to have occurred on the 



