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THROUGH FINLAND. 209
of houfes including thofe that were building, is upwards of one
thoufand one hundred ; which in 1780 contained two thoufand
and forty-eight families. There are no fewer than five cuftom-
houfes in this city.
The cathedral church of St. Henry is covered with wood in
thin plates, or fhingles, laid.one over the other. In length. it is
one hundred and fifty yards by fixty-three and a-half in breadth,
and feventy-five in height. It is the only church in Abo, and is
equally appropriated for the purpofe of public worfhip according
to the Finlandifh and the Swedifh rituals. The Swedith congre-
gation begin their fervice at fix o’clock inthe morning, that of
the Finlanders at nine. The tower is covered with a copper roof,
and furnifiied witha clock, which 1s expofed, like all objects that
are raifed high in the air, to be ftruck with lightning : this ac-
cident having befallen it on different occafions, it 1s now protected
by a conductor. ; ;
‘The academy, confifting of two ftories, is built of ftone, with
three auditories, and a chamber for the academical confiftory.
Elard by is a faloon for gymnaftic exercifes, and over it two apart-
ments for the library. ‘The cathedral {chool isnot effentially dif-
ferent from other {chools, as the bufinefs of education there is ‘the
fame with what you find in every town, namely, a little Latin
and Hebrew. The honourable appellation of cathedral 1s given
to it merely becaufe it happens to be at a place which is the re-
fidence of a bifhop. ‘The chemical laboratory and the diffecting-
room are included in the fame building ; one in the firft, and the
Vor. Ee . other
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