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‘THROUGH FINLAND. aut
mnatomy, natural hiftory and ceconomics, have been more recently
appointed, for they did not belong to the original inftitution. The
one laft mentioned was fubftituted in the room of a profeffor in
poetry, which it was thought proper to unite with the profeffion
of eloquence. This exchange of poetry, or poetical criticifm, for
ceconomics, is no unpleafing characteriftic of the prefent age, and
a proof of the good fenfe of the Swedes, and progrefs of real know-
ledge in that country. The number of ftudents, upon an average,
amounts to about five hundred and fify, abfentees included.
The library owed its firft exiftence to the liberality of Queen
Chriftina: it was afterwards greatly augmented by a donation
from the late General Stalhoudfke, and alfo by that of fome in-
dividuals, among whom are particularly diftinguifhed Aichen-
holk, counfellor of ftate, who beftowed upon it a very confider-
able collection of books, manufcripts, ancient coins, &c. The
fame kind of liberality was fhown by bifhop (afterwards arch-
bifhop) Menander, who prefented the univerfity with a large
quantity of rare books, manufcripts, and fome relics of antiquity.
The number of books in the library at prefent exceeds ten thou-
fand volumes, and its annual fund for new purchafes is about one
hundred and fifty rix dollars or crowns.
The government of the town is placed in the hands of two burgo-
mafters (or mayors), the one of juftice, the other of police, and
fix fenators (or aldermen). Befides the court of the palace, and
the inferior municipal jurifdictions, there are a ftamp-office, an
excife-office, a poft-office, éc. |
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