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TRAVELS 
frozen, fo that it became neceffary to melt it by the injection of 
a red-hot bar of iron. I hare attempted to make a drawing 
of this carriage ; but it is difficult for art to imitate the operations 
and effedls of the froft, difplayed in the various appearances of the 
ice ; its tranfparency and the fantaftical beauty of its embroide¬ 
ries are not eafily copied. For the purpofe of rendering the de- 
fign more interefting, I have chofen the pump at the bridge near 
the Mint: this gave me an opportunity of introducing into the 
piece that edifice, which was very near the houfe called Rofena- 
dlefka, where we lodged, and formed an angle of the ftreet lead¬ 
ing to the fquare of Riddarholmen. In the fame plate I have 
added a reprefentation of one of thofe fmall fledges that are ufed 
for the conveyance of goods or luggage from one place to another, 
which are peculiar, I believe, to the city of Stockholm. Neither 
men nor women carry any thing on their heads or ffioulders, 
but employ thefe fledges, which they puffi on before them. 
When they come to a declivity, they reft with their left hip and 
thigh on the fledge, and glide down to the bottom with a velo¬ 
city, which to a ftranger appears both aftonifliing and frightful, 
guiding all the while the motion of the fledge with their right 
foot. The addrefs with which they perform this, it is not eafy 
for any one to conceive who has not witneffed it. If you add to 
the objects which I have been defcribing, the curious appear¬ 
ance of the many different pellices that are worn with the furs 
on the outfide, you will imagine what a ftriking fcene the ftreets 
of Stockholm in winter prefent to a foreigner, efpecially to one 
that came from the fouthern part of Europe. 
