THROUGH SWEDEN. 
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Enveloped in pelices of Ruffian bears’ fkins, our heads clofely 
covered with fur caps, and our hands in gloves lined with wool or 
fur, we found no reafon to complain of cold the whole way to 
Griflehamn, w T here we arrived on the fame evening. The fky was 
covered with clouds and dark, and confequently our journey was 
difmal, or at leaft gloomy. The firft object that prefented itfelf 
to our view on leaving Stockholm behind us, was the gardens of 
Haga, already mentioned, with the lake wffiich in the fummer fea- 
fon forms fo great an embelliffiment to this delightful retreat*. It 
was no longer that delicious paradife, that pleafure ground tufted 
with trees in leaf, and adorned with ffirubberies and coppice w r ood, 
through which the winding paths, under a pleafing ffiade, imper¬ 
ceptibly conduced the vifitor to fome fountain, or to the vaulted 
roof of fome little temple, or fome cabin, the afylum of fimplicity 
and love: it Was the fkeleton, or, more properly, the inanimated 
carcafe of that garden. All the fine contrivances of art which 
were made ufe of to captivate the eye, and to fill the mind with 
a pleafmg fenfation of furprize and fatisfa&ion ; thofe means that 
were called in aid to improve the beauty of the place, and to 
conceal its faults ; all thefe fecrets by which you were kept in a 
Rate of ignorance of what could afford no gratification if known 
or feen, were now, by the mercilefs feverity of the feafon, cruelly 
revealed. A fad and mournful nakednefs was vifible throughout 
the wffiole. Thofe temples and retreats to which you were led 
through many meandering ways and turns, and which were fo 
fituated as to deceive the imagination by the idea that they were 
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