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of Guflavus Adolphus. On two fides of this fquare, the right 
and the left, are two edifices, the fronts of which are in exadt cor- 
refpondence and fymmetry with each other. One of them is the 
palace of the princefs royal, and the other the opera-boufe. It 
is much to be regretted that the houfes in this place are not built 
in fuch a ftyle and order as to anfwer to thefe buildings. If they 
were altered and embellifhed in a manner analagous to the prim 
cefs’s palace and the opera-houfe, I wdll venture to fay, that there 
are few cities which would afford fuch a magnificent point of 
view as the north bridge of Stockholm would then afford. To 
this is to be added the effect produced on the imagination, by 
the noife of the water milling in a violent cataract through the 
arches of the bridge, which completes the romantic affemblagCo 
After what has been faid of the fituation of Stockholm, it will 
be eafy to conceive what a change the appearance of the whole 
feene muff undergo by the oppofite feafons. 
The grand and mold diflinguifhed feature in the locality of 
that city, namely, being fituated on iflands amidft gulfs and 
lakes, is deftroyed by the ice. The fame w r ater which divides 
the inhabitants of the different quarters in fummer unites them 
in winter. It becomes a plain which is traverfed by every 
body. The iflands are iflands no longer : horfes in fledges, phae¬ 
tons, and in vehicles of all forts placed on fkates, fcour the gulf 
and lakes by the fide of fhips fixed in the ice, and aftonifhed 
as it were to find themfelves in fuch company on the fame ele¬ 
ment. Thofe lakes, w 7 hich in fummer were brightened by the 
clear 
