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SWE iD 28.-M, 7
wood painted fo as to refemble brick and ftone. Part of
the Town flands upon a fwampy plain, which like the
Dutch towns, is interfefted by Canals, the other part upon
the declivity of an hill. The Harbour is commodious
and convenient. There are eftablifhments here of feveral
branches of commerce, ’ particularly an Eaft India
company and an Herring Fifhery. From thele two
caufes alone this place has increafed confiderably in
the fpace of a very few years, The Entrance of the
Harbour is guarded by the fort of new Elfsburg which
is fituated on a {mall rocky Ifland and garrifoned.,
The Markets here are extremely well fupplied with
neceflaries and for very moderate prices. The Chief
Magiftrate here, is the Burgo-mafter, who regulates
the Markets, and poffeffes the civil direétion of the
Town, in the fame manner as the Mayor of corporate
Towns in England,
You will naturally expeét that I fhould not Be ma-
ny hours in Sweden before [ fhould be able to give
fome account of the fairer part of the Creation, who
in every quarter of the Globe are entitled to attention.
But
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