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L140 ‘TRAVELS
the advantage of an univerfity education. If any of the youth
whofe circumftances might not admit of an univerfity education,
give indications of fine parts, and a genius for any department of
fcience ; the infpectors, who are in general allowed to difcharge
their duty with great diligence and fidelity, make a report of him
to the king, who then orders that he may receive an education
fuitable to his talents and his merit. I may take this opportunity
to obferve, that the Swedifh clergy are for the moft part regular
and decent in their deportment, and attentive to the duties of
their office.
In the Swedifh dominions are three univerfities, that of Upfala,
that of Lund, and that of Abo. Following, as ought to be
done in a book of travels, the geographical order of the places, I
begin with that of Lund, the capital of Scania, efteemed the
moft ancient town in Sweden. It is fituated about fixty Swedifh
miles * to the fouth of Stockholm, and fixty-feven of Upfala. It
is the refidence of an archbifhop. The climate is remarkably
falubrious ; the country around being plain, prefents in an open
and extenfive view a horizon well adapted to obfervations in aftro-
nomy. Acrofs the arm of the fea which divides Sweden from
Denmark, you fee Copenhagen and the Danifh fhores. The pro-
feffors in the univerfity, including adjunéls, or affiftants, are in
number more than fifty; the ftudents in common years three
hundred. The library contains above twenty thoufand volumes.
There is alfo a botanical garden at Lund, but of no celebrity ; the
* The Swedith mile is nearly equal to feven Englith miles.
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