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off one side. They don't put any bottom, so that the 

 roads are very soft in damp weather. When the road 

 is much broke in woody country they throw in 

 pieces of wood, and sometimes we saw ledges of plank 

 at the side for the water. At Thumble we arrived 

 by moonlight, and had a bad supper of eels, and pig, 

 and milk. Such a devil of a landlady I never saw. 

 Were joined by some travellers to Carlscrona, who 

 rode on with us to our next stage. Ned comiDg up, 

 we continued I driving for pleasure as the night was 

 charming and mild. Every half English mile, a lake 

 woods now and then several gentlemen's seats -a 

 village or two passed also a few rivers. At Brink 

 got cattle immediately ; indeed we afterwards learnt 

 that General L. had ordered horses for us all the way 

 as he passed. Continued to Nordkdping. The scenery 

 much the same, though more woody. Passed two 

 very fine chateaux : one, of freestone, with two wings 

 and large offices, belongs to Count Fersen. No gar- 

 dens nor pleasure-grounds apparently ; all rocks, wood, 

 and water. 



Oct. 13. At one o'clock in the morning arrived 

 at Nordkdping, the largest town we saw between 

 Copenhagen and Stockholm; indeed it is the third 

 in Sweden in point of importance, and the Gotten- 

 borgers say it is larger than Gottenborg. It stands 

 on both sides of a very rapid and noisy river of con- 

 siderable breadth, over which is a good wooden bridge. 

 The houses are chiefly of wood, and well built, many 

 of them covered with copper. There are a vast number 



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