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an uniform scene of small eminences of black rock, where nature
cannot by any power of art be forced to produce vegetation. The
harbour exhibits a fimilar confufion of rocks not more pleafing to
the cye, and fome little craggy ifles of a rugged and forbidding
afpect. As to the interigr of the town, it refembles in fome re-
{pects the towns of Holland, having canals, with rows of trees
along their margins, regularly cut or clipped in the Dutch fafhion.
The inhabitants of this place are in a ftate of constant emulation
with those of the capital, in commerce as well as in their mode
of life, their fafhions, and every fpecies of luxury. I have been
aflured by feveral persons that one may live more agreeably at
Gothenburg than at Stockholm. To a stranger who delights in
fociety, it certainly affords opportunities of following his incli-
nation without formality or reftraint. The ladies of Gothen-
burg are celebrated for their amiable difpofitions, their beauty,
their fociability, and their accomplifhments. They employ much
of their time in the cultivation of languages and the arts, parti-
cularly that of mufic. They poffefs in a very high degree all
the qualifications that form an amiable, accomplifhed, and inte-
refting woman. The population of this town is about. fifteen
thoufand. The fuburbs are situated on rifing ground, and are
occupied principally by feafaring people belonging to merchant-
men, the Eaft India Company, and feveral fhips of war {tationed
in the harbour. There is an hofpital at Gothenburg, founded by
an individual, Mr. Sahlgren, the annual revenue of which amounts
to fifteen hundred rix dollars. It contains thirty beds, of which
two
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