the capital city of Sweden, situated on several small islands in the Meller Lake: E. long. 18°, N. lat. 59° 30', three hundred miles north-east of Copenhagen, nine hundred north-east of London, and four hundred west of Peterburgh. It is neither walled nor fortified, being sufficiently secured by nature, with little rocks and islands, which surround it, though it has a spacious harbour sufficient for the largest fleets. That part of the town which is properly the city, stands upon a little island that is not more than a mile and a half in circumference, but the suburbs on the adjacent island are much larger. The inhabitants are computed about thirty thousand.