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to Upfala was pleafant and agreeable. The Tillage-
ground appeared to be well wrought and clear of weeds,
and to my furprize was judicioufly trenched. The*grain
principally cultivated was Rye with a little Barley and
fome Wheat. The province of Agriculture is not alto-
gether intrufted to men as in England. Women here
bear their part, and handle the plough, which on that ac-
count is made very light and {mall.
}
In the afternoon we arrived once more-at Upfala and
loft no time in viewing this ancient City and Univertity,
This has been a place of Eminence from the earlieft times
of the Swedifh Hiftory. All the Kings of Sweden before
the reformation were crowned and buried here, and here
Queen Chriftina refigned het Crown in the year 1654.
The celebrity of this place indeed in the times of Popery
was owing, not fo much, perhaps, to its being the place of
the refidence of their Kings as of the Archbifhop : for the
Archbifhops of Upfala frequently made a greater figure
than the Kings themfelves, and depofed them according
to their own power and Intereft. :
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