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132 : TRAVELS
g. The fociety for the inftruction of fellow-citizens at Stock-
holm.*
~The academy of fciences hold their meetings in the Obferva-
tory, which is a lofty and beautiful edifice, fituated on an eminence
at the extremity of the city, and furnifhed with a great number
of excellent aftronomical inftruments of all forts. There is no-
thing by which the genius of the Swedes is more diftinguifhed,
than a happy turn for mechanical improvement, which is called
forth and encouraged by their mines. It was by means of inftru-
ments made at Stockholm, that the Swedifh aftronomers detected
certain inaccuracies in the obfervations made by Maupertuis.
There is at Stockholm, in an ancient palace where the courts of
* Onthe fubject of the actual ftate of literature in Sweden I ought to take
notice of men of letters, of diftinguifhed talents and accomplifhments, who are
neither members of academies, nor profeffors in univerfities. Perhaps I ought
alfo to mention ftrangers who, from the circumftance of being eftablithed in
fome of the public offices at Stockholm, have an opportunity of contributing
either directly or indirectly to the advancement of literature and fcience. But
fuch perfons, retired from the pomp and parade of learning, have a right to be
protected under the fhade of their philofophical retreat. As they are not ambi-
tious of public praife, fo neither ought they to be dragged forth into public cri-
ticifm and cenfure. Icannot, however, avoid naming Mr. Catteau, a minifter
of the calviniftic perfuafion at Stockholm, author of a book called Tableau de la
Suede, a Picture or a View of Sweden, which has been tranflated into Englith.
Mr. Catteau has a true and genuine tafte and turn for literature. Avoiding the
noife of an oftentatious though lazy fociety, he divides his time and his cares
between his parochial duties and his ftudies. and has been employed for thefe
Jaft years in ftatiftical enquiries concerning Denmark and Sweden. His work
will be, the moft complete that we have of the kind, and will ferve as a model
in that fpecies of compofition. It was printing at Paris, and one yolume of it had
appeared when this was written. PANE AED dy
juftice
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