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200 TRAVELS
1791, out of eighteen thoufand {even hundred and fixty who died,
thirty-feven fuffered under the hands of the executioner shandaat
Naples and in Sicily, fix hundred murders are fuppofed to be per-
petrated one year with another in a population of five millions,
From the year 1749 to the year 1773, there were born in Aland
one hundred and nineteen illegitimate children; from 1774 to
1790, the number of thefe was one hundred and twenty-fix ;
which is in the proportion, for the firft twenty-five years, of one
baftard child to eighty-three legitimate children ; and for the fol-
lowing fixteen years, of one to fifty-three. The latter proportion, »
however, is in fome meafure a proof of an’ aiereate of moral de-
pravity ; though it be trifling when compared with other places,
fuch as Stockholm and Abo, where one-fixth part of the children
born are illegitimate ; and if we take the births through Sweden
we fhall find the proportion to be one to forty-five.
The people of Aland are far from being fuperftitious; but, for
what reafon I know not, they are accufed of being of a litigious
difpofition.
No bears or fquirrels are to be found in thefe iflands ; and the
Elk, which formerly was uncommonly numerous, is now no
longer feen in them. The animals chiefly found are wolves,
(which are faid to crofs the fea from Finland, when it has hap-
pened to be frozen over) foxes, martens, hares, ermines, bats,
moles, rats, mice, &c.; otters are but rarely met with: on the
coaft are found feals, &c.
Of birds there are above a hundred different fpecies found in
thefe
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