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a ipot fo much frequented as Trolhatta, both by foreigners and 
Swedes, there fliould not be better accommodations ; and that it 
never occurred to any one, as a good {peculation, to let up a new 
inn. In the one that now exifts there are but four apartments .: 
when thefe are occupied, there is no other houfe where a travelle; 
can be decently lodged. Trolhiitta is a place where the ad¬ 
mirers of natural beauties, if they could be tolerably accommo¬ 
dated, would be tempted to flop for feveral days; as it is fcarcely 
poffible in lefs time to have any fatisfadory view of the famous 
catarads, and the canal, which is one of the boldelt and mod 
amazing works of the kind in the w r orld. The catarads are a 
feries of cafcades, formed by the river Gotha, which iiTues from 
the lake of Wennern, and being united after many breaks, falls 
in its w'hole and undivided dream from a height of upwards of 
fixty feet, into an unfathomable abyfs of water. 
The canal of Trolhatta has been wrought through the midft of 
rocks by the means of gunpowder. Its objed was to open a com¬ 
munication between the North Sea and the lake of Wennern, by 
continuing the navigation where the Gotha, dafhing down in ca¬ 
taracts, ceafes to be navigable. All the bar-iron of Nericia, War- 
merland, and other provinces, is tranfported in fmall boats acrofs 
the lake of Wennern, and along the Gotha, as far as the falls. 
By means of the new canal, the water carriage is prolonged be¬ 
yond the catarads to where the Gotha becomes again navigable ; 
and from thence the goods are eafdy conveyed on the river to 
Gothenburg, The obvious importance of fuch a cut had long 
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