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is no enjoyment without play. No perfbn is looked upon as fo- 
ciahle and pleafant, unlefs he knows how to play at bo/ton:* this 
is reckoned the height of focial accomplifliment. All you can 
do in fummer in the open air for your amufement, is to make 
excurfions in the environs of Stockholm, or to faunter in the 
garden of Vauxhall, w T hich is an humble imitation of that near 
London. As for walking about in the town, that is out of the 
queftion, on account of the pavement of the ftreets, which, I be¬ 
lieve, is by far the worft that can be met with in Europe. There 
are fometimes carriage-races, and alfo boat-races, or what they 
call regatta , which ferve as a temporary diverfion. The prin¬ 
cipal walks or excurfions are, to the royal parks at Ulrikfdal, 
Haga, Drottningholm, and Carleberg. The king has fome palaces 
in the vicinity of Stockholm, befides thefe of Gripfholm, and 
Stromfholm; but the moft beautiful, as well as the moll fre¬ 
quently inhabited, is that of Drottningholm. 
Drottningholm, or Queen’s Illand, is fituated at the diftance oi 
fix miles from Stockholm, on an ifland in the lake of Malar. 
The palace or caftle Hands on the edge of the lake, which here 
prelents a magnificent view. The fituation of the palace is beau¬ 
tiful, and the gardens belonging to it being of confiderable extent 
add much to its allurements. This building appears to great ad¬ 
vantage. The front and back parts are perfectly uniform, each 
containing thirty-one windows, befides tbofe in the two pavilions 
or wings. Near the place is a number of houfes, in which one 
* Bolton is the name of a game at cards not unlike that of cafino. 
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