a city of Sweden, the capital of the province and island of that name, or, as it is sometimes called, Gotland. It is situated on the western side of the island, was formerly a Hanse town, and a place of great trade. It is fortified, is rather irregularly built, but of stone, and in the style of the ancient German seaports. The harbour is not

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1 The orygynale Cronykil of Scotland, be Androw of Wyntown, Priowr of Sanct Serfs Ynche in Loch Levyn, &c. Lond. 1735, 2 vols. 4to & 8vo. 2 Of Winton's chronicle a considerable number of MSS. is mentioned by Macpherson, but several others are known to be preserved. There is one in the Lansdowne collection, lately added to the British Museum, another in the library of the university of St Andrews, and a third in that of Captain Wemyss of Wemyss.