TO SMYRNA.' 
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Vv'ere walking the deck on the 17th, acquainted us, 
that he had carried the famous King Theodore to 
Holland. He was delivered to him near Corfica by 
Captain Blix, a commander of a Swedilh man of 
War, who had taken him under his protection, when 
he fled from Corfica. Captain Ekeroth put him 
in a Dutch fifliing boat in the Texel. His retinue 
confifled then of a footman and a cook. I relate 
this ciicumftance for the fake of fome future Bio- 
grapher, to whom it may happen to be unknown. 
The high fandy mountains of the ifland of Goth- 
land appeared to-day on our left, looking like fo 
many great columns at a diftance. We could dis- 
cover nothing from hence through our glafles, but 
the fteeple of a church *. 
Charles’s iflandswere in fight on the 18th, inthe 
torenoon. The mountains of limeftone on the lhore 
Rood like high broken walls towards the fea. Both 
iflands were fo barren, that we could only fee two 
lhrubs on one of them. ■. 
The 19th, we had CEland on our right. 
About one o’clock on the 20th, a little grey bird, 
of the fparrow tribe, came flying clofe after our (hip. 
A he Captain faid immediately, that it fignified a 
florm. Half an hour had fcarcely pafled, before we 
had lo lrrong a gale, that the fea beat over our gunnel. 
, ia ^ e afterwards obferved feveral times, both in 
the Baltick, the North and Spanilh feas, that as of- 
■ Came 011 board > we had hard weather, 
wnich induces me to believe that the Peteril (Pro- 
e r p ria n0t tbe 0n 'y f° rerunner °f had weather. 
ihe ifland Bornholm was the firft Danifh land we 
and ta ? We bad Scania on our ftar-board, 
and were m fight of both the whole day. 
- i HE 22c *.’ ' ve ca me near the lhore of Scania, and 
t le evening were within a cannot ihot of Trselle.. 
8 Linnzi Iter Gothland. 282. 
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