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Oct. 5. After writing letters and cursing the 

 fleecing habits of this place, we set off to Elsinore 

 in a decent covered carriage. Saw nothing worth 

 notice on our way, except the corpse of a woman who 

 had been drowned ; it lay on the roadside, without 

 attracting the least attention. After stopping for 

 coffee at Hirschholm, got to Elsinore at ten, the 

 night being very fine and starry, and went to the 

 club, where we found the natives uncommon civil. 

 Received more attention from Mr Howden. 



Oct. 6. Early in the morning we got ready 

 by docking (of course) our tailor's bill breakfasted 

 with Mrs Howden, who resembles much the Queen of 

 Sweden. The quay as usual, for the Elsinorers 

 keep no Sabbath. Had a pleasant passage to Helsing- 

 borg, a Danish mile over. It is a neat enough town, 

 airily situated and built wide. The inn is very bad : 

 a villanous landlord, who had been two years at 

 Sunderland. He has waggons of all sorts for sale, as 

 people on leaving Sweden generally sell their travel- 

 ling carriage : for these he asks the most extravagant 

 prices, and I believe is generally sure of selling you, 

 as people are not a little in his hands. For a very 

 shabby uncovered one we paid thirty rix-dollars, and 

 after having it covered, could only sell it at Stock- 

 holm for ten ! Our stay here was spent in running 

 up and down after carriages and horses, arid specie 

 for which we paid a premium of nearly five per cent. 

 Near Helsingborg are the springs of mineral water to 

 which the Swedes resort every summer from Stock- 



