on their Writings and literary Character— Academy o f Sciences at
Upfala ; Royal Society of Sciences and Belles-Lettres at Gothen-
burgh ; Society at Lund; and other Societies or Academies— Collection
of Models and Machines at Stockholm— Difpofition o f the
Swedes for the Arts and Sciences— Their National Character.
CHAPTER Viri.
InJHtutions fo r the Pitrpofes of Education in Sweden : Parijh Schools,
Public Schools, Gymnafia, and Unrverjities— Account o f the Uni-
verfty o f Lund— The Profejfors and Students: the Method of
teaching, and the Things that are taught— The Univerjity of Upfala
— Some Intelligence of the individual Character o f feveral Profejfors
— The Univerjity of Abo---General Remarks on the Swedijh Uni-
v erf ties— Gujtavus III. enters the Prince Royal at the Univerjity
■of Upfala. — — — —
CHAPTER IX.
The annual Exhibition o f Pictures at Stockholm— Academy o f Painting
and Sculpture— Account o f fome diftinguijhed Painters, and
their Productions— Some Works o f the Dilettanti. —
CHAPTER X.
Tribute o f Praife to Mr; Coxe fo r his Account o f Sweden, and for
his Eagernefs in collecting Information— A Hint given to Travellers—
The general Imprejfion made on the Author s Mind of the
State of Sweden in refpeCt to Arts and Sciences; Commerce andC'
Manufactures; and civil Freedom— The Ufe of Sledges in Winter,
8 and
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and the Advantages derived from it— The different Kinds of Sledges;
and the Roads made through the Snow— Departure from Stockholm
; and Journey to Grijlehamn— Pajfage by Haga and Ulrief-
dal— Defcription o f the Gardens o f Haga in Winter— Face o f the
Country between Ulriefdal and Grijlehamn— Foxes met with on
the Road—Want o f Inns or Public Houfes— Provijions o f the
Peafants that attend Travellers— Character, Manners, and do-
mejiic Condition o f the Peafantry — — 169
CHAPTER XE
Grijlehamn— The Pajfage acrofs the G ulf to Finland dangerous in
Summer to navigate, arid in Winter frozen overJo as to bear. Sledges
— The Author s Journey acrofs the Ice— Difficulties attending it,
and Adventures that happened— Seals or Sea-Calves living on and
under the Ice— Manner o f hunting them— The IJles o f Aland—
Some o f them mentioned by Name: the Forirefs o f Cajlleholmen—
Anecdotes from a Converfation with a Peafant — 182
CHAPTER X l l
An Account o f the IJles o f Aland— Their Situation, Name, and Hif- '
tory— Parijhes and civil Regulations— Soil and Produce— The Inhabitants
: their Manners and Cujioms— Natural Hiftory: Quadrupeds,
Birds, amphibious Animals, Fijhes, InfeCls, Plants and
Minerals •*— — _ _ j