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240 (tts SERA MEES Gey
The building appropriated to the fittings of the courts. is, built
of ftone clofe to the town, and upon the declivity of a rifing
ground to the fouth-eaft, oppofite to the governor’s palace and
the royal farm of Thorfholm. This edifice is feventy yards in
length by twenty-feven in breadth, and thirty-three in height,
and confifts of three ftories. In front 1t is ornamented with a
clock. It is of the doric order of architeéture, and is altogether
one of the handfomeft buildings in the kingdom. On the frieze
is obfervable the following infcription: ‘¢ Guftavus lI. R. S.
‘anno Imperii XII. extruxit Themidique dicavit.” To the ote
ward is an open place, a hundred yards broad, and two hundred
and fifty-five in length, called the market-place of Guftavus, from
which, oppofite Agiibe front of the houfe, runs an avenue of four
rows of trees on each fide, a hundred yards broad, and five hun-
dred long. Around the market-place are erected the houfes of
the members of the tribunal, in a ftyle of perfe& fymmetry. The
inhabitants, for the ornament of the town, have begun to plant
avenues of trees to the eaft, north and fouth of the railing that in-
clofesthe building. |
The town of Wafa is in a very improving condition, both as to
the daily extenfion of its trade, and the increafing number of its
commodities. As it now ftands, it covers a furface of fixteen
hundred yards in length, and a thoufand in breadth, and contains
to fo great a diftance ; which feems to prove that tribunals and lawyers multiply
law-fuits, juft as phyficians are faid fometimes to have added to the number of
diteales.
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