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TRAVELS 
“ is built oil an ifland.” But the fad is, that the greater part of 
what is called Stockholm is fituated, not on one, but feven or 
eight iflands, of which fome are furrounded by the frcfh water of 
the lake Miftar^ and fome by the fait water of the fea. The city, 
properly fo called, ftands on an ifland in the midft of the whole : 
to the weft it is waflied by frefh, and to the eaft by fait water, 
being placed at the junction of the lake Malar with the Baltic Sea. 
The aggregate of the ides of Stockholm is as follows: 1. Staden- 
holmen, or City Ifland: 2. Riddarholmen, or the Knights’ Ifland, 
in which is the Town Houfe, and in front of this a ftatue of 
Guftavus Vafa. 3. Helgelandfholmen, or the ifle of the Holy 
Ghoft. It was here, in the time of Magnus Ladiflaus, that an 
important ad was paffed by the diet, or parliament, in the year 
1282, for annexing many large domains to the crown. 4. Skip- 
pifholmen, or the ifle of Ships, called in the map Admiralftates- 
holmen. Here are barracks and magazines for the flotilla. With 
this, the little ifland of Caftelholmen is connected by a fmall bridge. 
5. Blasiiholmen, or the ifle of Blafius : this, however, cannot be 
ftridly called an ifland, becaufe on one fide the channel has been 
.filled up by the formation of the king’s gardens, fo that it is now 
joined to the continent. It is here that the fadion of the Hats, 
which was in favour of king Albrecht, in 138g, committed the 
horrid cruelty of burning alive two hundred Swedes. The party 
in oppofition to the Hats, as is well known, were the Caps; be¬ 
caufe they wore this article of drefs, which was confidered as the 
patriotic diftindion of the nation. It was in Albrecht’s reign that 
Sweden 
