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fcribed vnicere aut mors.* Many paffages arc here tranfcribed 
from Cornelius Nepos and Quintus Curtius. Befides books, the 
library comprehends a cabinet of natural hiftory and another of 
antient and modern medals, and likewife a colle&ion of original 
Flemifh, Dutch, and Italian paintings. The whole forms a 
monument of that love of fcience, and tafte for the fine arts, 
which fo eminently diftinguifhed the queen of Sweden, mother 
to Guftavus III. and filler to Frederic the Great of Pruflia. The 
medals are depofited in eight chefls, with one hundred and twenty 
drawers. The princefs juft mentioned inftituted alfo an academy 
of belles-lettres, who, during her life time, held their meetings 
at Drottningholm. The palace of Drottningholm farther offers 
to your view a gallery of paintings, the principal fubjedls of 
which are, the battles and victories of the kings and princes of 
Sweden. 
Every year an exhibition takes place at Drottningholm, at the 
king’s expence, reprefenting a tournament, in which all the laws 
"bf chivalry are obferved with the greatefl exadlnefs. This fhew, 
which is generally attended by an immenfe crowd of fpe<5lators, 
carries the imagination back for four or five centuries. It was 
particularly brought into vogue by Guftavus III. who was a great 
lover of whatever tended to imprefs the mind with ideas of gran¬ 
deur. His prefent Majefty, who fhews a difpofition to tread in 
the footfteps of his father as much as poffible, after his acceffion to 
* Vi&ory or death. 
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