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home & took tea with Mrs. Wijk & then bade adieu.
Found on our return home Mr. Appleton had arrived from Stockholm.
He goes to Copenhagen with us.
Wednesday. 9. At two in the afta we left Gothenburg, in a little boat for the steamer station, which is three miles from the town.
Mr. Wijk accompanied us to the wharf.
When we arrived at the steamer pier—found the boat had not arrived from Christiana, & there we waited three hours for it. We left about 6 in the evening. The steamer crowded.
We were obliged to sleep in the gentleman's cabin, & the cabin was entirely filled with hammocks swung one above another.—Thursday.
10. Arrived in Copenhagen at 2 P. M. Found good accommodations at the Hotel Royal.
Monday. 14. Mr. Appleton & Mary G—left us, for London.
Tuesday. 15. In the morning went over the new palace, not yet entirely completed.
It is a fine building, the rooms very neat, most of them carpeted.
The carpet English, & upon the king's apartments of the most ordinary & coarsest Kidderminster.
The Queen's were Brussels, but nothing extraordinary.
In one large room was the king's throne—A gilded chair covered with crimson velvet, & his initials worked in gold upon it. The platform, & the steps by which you ascend to it, were also covered with
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