38 TRAVELS 
dilated capital, from which you may furvey its manifold and fin- 
gular beauties. Steeples, houfes, rocks, trees, lakes, and the. 
cadle, which rears its head above the whole, prefent to the eye a 
mod intereding pi&ure. But the point of view which is more 
{hiking than all the others, and where every dranger fhould dop 
and look around him, is the north bridge. Turning towards' 
the city, you have in front a view of its whole extent, and of the 
forepart of the cadle, which dands on the brow of a hill. This is 
a w ork of fuperb architecture, fimple indeed, but noble and ma- 
jedic; not incumbered with that load of ufelefs ornaments, 
which greatly disfigured the cadle or palace of Copenhagen, as 
may dill be feen from the ruins that were left by the fire, which 
has nearly dedroyed that magnificent dructure. Thence, on the 
right, your eye takes a wide range ; and perceives, among other 
objects, a number of hills adorned with houfes or with fir-trees, 
and reds with delight on a fmall ifland, embellifhed with a pa¬ 
vilion or dimmer houfe, which is reflected by the limpid furface 
of the water, and exhibits a mod pleafing appearance. Near to 
this building, on the right hand, dands the beautiful houfe of 
the Count de Bunge, w r here a club is held, didinguifhed by the 
name of the Society. A profpeid as much diverfified, and not lefs 
extenfive, is opened towards the ead, comprehending at fome 
didance the ifle of Blafius, which communicates by means of a 
wooden bridge with Ships-illand. To the left you fee the theatre 
or play-houfe, and to the north you obferve the Nordermalm or 
north-place, in the centre of which dands a guilt datue in bronze 
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