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THROUGH SWEDEN. 15
two are appropriated for the delivery of pregnant women: but
when occafion requires, a greater number is allotted for this be-
nevolent purpofe, fometimes as many as seven. Any woman,
whoever fhe may be, when her time approaches, on ringing a bell
at any hour during day or night, is inftantly admitted gratis, and
without being afked any questions. They alfo receive foundling
children, and at times maintain no lefs than forty or fifty of them.
The commerce of Gothenburg is very considerable, and compre-
hends perhaps more than the seventh part of the exports, and
about a fourth of the imports of the whole kingdom. The Eaft
India Company, in which the city of Antwerp and the town of
Oftend have a large share, fends from one to two or three fhips
annually to China. ‘Though their charter empowers them to
trade with India, it is but rarely, and to no considerable extent,
that they avail themfelves of that privilege. The number of
trading veffels belonging to Gothenburg is about two hundred and
fifty. About eight hundred foreign fhips enter the harbour an-
nually, and about five hundred Swedish. One of the principal.
fources of profperity to Gothenburg is the herring fifhery. Six hun-
dred thoufand barrels of falted herrings have been known to be fold
in one year, and thirty thoufand barrels of oil. To one barrel of
oil there is reckoned a proportion of ten or twelve barrels of her-
rings. Every such barrel contains from a thoufand to fourteen
hundred herrings. The fifhing begins in October, and lasts till
February, and fometimes till March. The herrings are partly con-
fumed
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