which is from
forty-five to sixty-five miles long, and proportionally broad, until
evening, when it was already too dark to admire the scenery.  Our ship
remained some hours before the insignificant village Wennersborg.

We had met six or seven steamers on our journey, which all belonged to
Swedish or Norwegian merchants; and it afforded us a peculiarly
interesting sight to see these ships ascend and descend in the high
locks.

                                                            September 5th.

As we were leavingand that I ought to stop, and not
have spent all the money for nothing.  I was unfortunately too little
acquainted with the Swedish language to explain the reason of my
departure, so I could give him no answer, but went away.  I, however,
heard him say to some one, "I never met with such a woman before; she sat
an hour looking at the curtain, and goes away as soon as it rises."  I
looked round and saw how he shook his head thoughtfully, and pointed with
his forefinger to his forehead.  I could not refrain from smiling, and
enjoyed the scene as much as I should have done the second act of
Mozart's _Don Giovanni_.

I called for my friends at the royal palace, and spent the evening very
agreeably in the brilliantly-illuminated