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THROUGH SWEDEN. 136
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reading and writing are taught. Befides this, there is a public
{chool maintained in every large town at the expence of the crown,
in which the boys continue till about their eleventh or twelfth year,
when they are commonly fent to one of the gymnafia. Thefe
alfo are public fchools, but upon a larger fcale than the former; -
and one of them exifts in almoft every province. From the gym-
nafia the young men, at the age of feventeen or eighteen, proceed
to one of the univerfities, and for the greater part to Upfala. In
the gymnafia, and many of the greater fchools, they are not only
inftructed in the Latin, Greek and Hebrew languages, but in the
principal do¢trines of theology. Thefe /chola illufires and gym-
nafia, are under the care and infpection of the bifhops of the re-
fpective diocefes in which they are eftablifhed, and where the
bifhops conftantly refide. ‘The bifhops, accompanied by fome of
the inferior clergy, and others, vifit and examine the fchools pub-
licly at fixed periods. The courfe of education, and the books
read, are not left to the difcretion of the teachers, but prefcribed
by public authority. At Stockholm there is a German {chool,
which is placed under the infpection of two German aiviens of
the go‘pel. In this feminary the pupils are inftructed in Grecian,
Roman, and moderm hiftory, geography and religion. The
Swedifh gentlemen are feldom contented with what may be called
a {cholaftic, ora gymnaftic education, but proceed either from one
of the greater, or, as they call them, the illuftrious fchools; or
more generally from one of the gymnafia to the univerfity. The
fons of wealthy tradefmen too, and peafants, have very frequently
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