it yielded only io o o barrels* o f herrings.
20,766
52,828
74.7 9 1
117,2121
In 1762 - - 142,091
1763 - - 18 6 ,6 14 !
1764 - - 9 9 ,6 16 !
1768 - - 15 1 ,48 3
An Engliih confnl and feveral merchants o f our nation re-
fide at Gotheborg ; and a chapel, with a regular chaplain, is
appropriated to their ufe.
As I did not remain a fufficient time in Sweden to gain
accurate and circumftanfial information concerning the commerce,
I can only add the following particulars in addition
to what has been already laid down upon the trade of
Gotheborg.
By the navigation adt pafled in the diet o f 172 2, foreign
veffels are not allowed to bring into Sweden any produdtions
but thofe of their own countries, or to tranfport them from
one port to another.
The principal exports o f Sweden are copper, iron, ordnance
flores, mails, planks, pitch and tar, train-oil, alum,
pot-alh, fait petre, gunpowder, fait, falted filh, foap, vitriol.
Its imports, tin, lead, grain, tobacco, fnuff, wines, hardware,
filk and filken fluffs, paper, tea and coffee, fugar, fpices,
drug's, thread, hemp, wool.
Cantzlert, whofe accurate account o f Sweden cannot be too
much recommended to the curious reader, informs us, that
o f the export trade Stockholm caries on * j Gotheborg -!•,
and the other ftaple towns ~ ; and o f the import commerce
Stockholm !, Gotheborg i, and the other towns ! .
As the diftridts which I paffed from Upfala to Trolhætta
are efteemed the fineft and moft populous parts o f Sweden,
* A barre l contains io o o h e r rin g s .
f M émoires fu i les A ffa ires Po lit, e t Econom. de Suede, p . 374.
4 thofe
thofe whichltraverfed from Gotheborg toCarlfcrona through c h a p .
the province o f Smoland are faid to be the wildeft, leafl in - . X' .
habited, and the moft uncultivated regions o f this kingdom.
The diftance between Gotheborg and Carlfcrona is 3 8 Swe-
diih, or 247 Engliih miles ; and in this extent o f ground
only one place dignified with the name o f a town prefented
itfelf. The villages, for the moft part, confifted o f fix or
feven houfes ; and fometimes, where I flopped to change
horfes, I found nothing but a fingle folitary cottage : yet,
along this feemingly inhofpitable track, I met with good
roads, tolerable accommodations and a cheerful and contented
peafantry.
March t5. I quitted Gotheborg, and pafled over a fuccef-
fion o f barren rocks with few trees, fimilar to thofe which
ftretch along the coafts o f the German Ocean near Gotheborg.
As I advanced, the country became fomewhat more
fertile. Hills o f granite appeared lefs frequent, but large,
maffes were flattered over the face o f the country. The region
which I traverfed in this and the following day, though
wild, and not capable o f much cultivation, was yet infinitely
diverfified. It was an hilly diftridl, in many parts overfpread
with forefts of pines, beech, and oak, occafionally interfperfed '
with pafture and fmall plains o f arable land, fprinkled with
feveral pidturefque lakes, and watered by numberlefs rivulets,
clear as chryftal, and gurgling over their ftony channels.
During one poft o f this day’s route I was driven by a pea-
fant’s daughter; and as the roads were in many parts exceedingly
fteep, it .required fome ftrength, and much dexte-
rity, to diiedt the horfes, and to prevent the carriage from
being overturned ; I propofed that my fervant, who was an
expert driver, ihould take the reins: the girl, however, offended
at my queftioning her flail, peremptorily rejedted my
S s s_ 2 propofal;