B °x° K ^1S land, is encircling with an extenfive range of fortifications,
* no lefs expenfive and difficult than the former.
Being from former experience well acquainted with the mode
of travelling in this country, we fent forwards our Engliih poft-
chaife from Copenhagen to Stockholm, and purchafed for ourfelves
two fmall peaiant’s carts, each provided with an arm-chair hung
upon fprings. In thefe vehicles we went ufually at the rate of
eight or nine miles in an hour, and not unfrequently travelled
from eighty to a hundred miles in a day.
The regulations of the pofl: are very excellent. At each poft-
houfe is kept a day-book or journal, in which each traveller
fets down his name and charaiter, the day and hour of his arrival
and departure, the place from whence he came, and whither
he is.going, and the number of horfes he requires. One column
is appropriated to complaints; fo that if the poft-mafter is impertinent
or impofing, his conduct is known, as the journal is
every month infpefted by the officers of government.
Lund, about twenty miles from Landfcrona, and the capital of
Scania, is eileemed the moil antient town in Sweden, according
to an old proverb, that when our Saviour was born, Lund was
in its glory. The fimilarity of the genitive cafe Lunden, to the
name of the Engliih capital, has led fome-antiquarians to conjecture,
that London derived its appellation from this place.
Lund contains fcarcely more than 800 inhabitants, carries on
but little trade, and is principally fupported by its univerfity,
eftablifhed by Charles the Eleventh, and called, from the name
of
of its founder, Academia Carolina Gothorum. There are twenty-
one profefiors, and three hundred ftudents. The library contains
20,000 volumes.
The botanical garden is by no means in a flouriihing Hate, the
number of plants not exceeding 1200.
Lund is an archbiihopric. The cathedral is an antient irregular
building, raifed at different intervals. The clerk did not omit
to carry us into a fubterraneous chapel, with a vaulted roof
fupported by grotefque pillars j on two of which are the figures,
of a man and woman carved in ftone, ftretching out their arms,
as if they were attempting to pull down the pillars. Thefe grotefque
figures have given rife to the following l e g e n d A
giant built the chapel, at the requeit of the firil biihop, on condition
that the latter Ihould promiie to give him either the fun
and moon, his two eyes, or find out his name. When the building
was nearly finilhed, the biihop, who had not yet found out
the giant’s name, walked in the environs of the town in great
anxiety to a neighbouring eminence, and happened to hear the
giant’s wife call her huiband by the name of Fin. Elated with
this difcovery, he returned to the town, and faluted the giant by
his name. The latter was fo enraged, that he endeavoured*
with the affiltance of his wife, to pull down the chapel j but in
their firll attempt they were turned into ftones.
Our journey lay through Chrillianiladt, which I have mentioned
in my former tour to Carlfcrona. The variety of the
country, the wildnefs of fome of the views, the beauty of
® ethers*