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After coffee, and looking over the traveller's book 

 at the inn, and adding a note, set off at ten, and had 

 a very slow and hazardous drive along the rocks which 

 form the road. It was bright moonlight and the 

 night agreeable. At the first station had to wait an 

 hour and a ha]f for horses. In going to the next 

 were overtaken by a storm of snow, and had to crawl; 

 were stopped at the next also. 



Dec. 18. At the second had coffee, and as it was 

 morning, proceeded through the most rocky part of 

 Sweden I had yet seen. Eemarked particularly a val- 

 ley and a vast plain, with a river running through it 

 (almost frozen), and all surrounded by masses of ab- 

 solutely bare rocks, some of them of very considerable 

 size. The valley turns and continues apparently well 

 cultivated ; the rocks ranged on each side, with a few 

 trees scattered over them, and several clumps up and 

 down the valley, and some neat gentlemen's seats and 

 boxes. There is a good wooden drawbridge over the 

 Gotha, which is here very broad, and at the end appears 

 Gottenborg. The day being now fine, the prospect 

 was very pleasant. Several streams and one consid- 

 erable river cross the road and fall into the Gotha. 

 Entered Gottenborg at two o'clock, along a canal with 

 trees planted on the sides, and the boxes of the 

 merchants. 



Gottenborg. The merchants who compose the body 

 of this place are all croaking at the times, the effect 

 which the w T ar has had on the country. The India 

 house is actually shut up, and the Exchange almost 



