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TRAVELS 
On the other hand ,jouJi fignified fingle combat, when knight was 
oppofed to knight, and fquire to fquire, with javelin or dagger. 
After the proclamation of a tournament, and whilft the place of 
adion was preparing, the knights difplayed their titles and rights 
for entering the lifts, by an exhibition of the armorial bearings of 
their families, which were expofed to public view in the cloifters 
of fome adjoining monaftery. 
The royal park which is very large, and planted with trees of va¬ 
rious kinds, is fituated at the eaft fide of Stockholm, towards the 
lea. On the firft day of May the king and all the court, in their 
carriages, accompanied by a guard, go in proceflion round the park 
two or three tiroes. Sometimes the king and prince will alight 
from their carriages, and converfe with the foreign minifters or 
other favourites, who happen to be prefent at this ceremony. On 
a fmall eminence of the park which projects into the fea, the Spa- 
nifh ambaflador has not long ago built a fummer houfe. All the 
Ihips pafling and repafting from the harbour of Stockholm come fo 
near to this promontory, if I may call it by this name, as almoft 
to touch it: and a perfon may fpeak with the crew or paflengers 
from the windows of that lodge, without raifing his voice above the 
ufual pitch. When in the lodge, you fancy yourfelf on board of a 
Ihip, not on terra jirma. In this there is a fingularity and novelty, 
which gives an incitement to the mind, and gratifies the imagina¬ 
tion, in rough weather, by a momentary apprehenfton of danger, 
foon changed into joy by the recollection that there exifts not the 
leaft ground for alarm. Some of the Roman emperors, if I recoiled 
juftly, 
