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606A POURS THREOPCH
is very large and commodious, and “will cofitain one
thoufand fail of Ships. But with all its conveniences as .
a harbour, the utility of its fituation 1s diminifhed from
the difficulty of communication with the Sea. The lake
Meller falls from itinto the Baltic ; but the paflage having
fo many windings, and the circumftance of there being no
tides to “ami the nayipation of the: Ships, renders it very
difficult of accefs.. And iftothis we add, that for four
months at leaft in’ every year they arefrozen up, thefe
eireumiances Will be found great impediments to Com-
merce. The Population -of the capital of Sweden is
reckoned at about one hundred thoufand Souls. The
Gaile; which. is-ufed as an-arfenal, as well: as for the
lodgings of the: asics is a- sete? puitdingasnds covered
with copper, as feverabbuildings-are-in-Sto ekholm, from
fhe many Copper-mines with which tae
~ ha
Ia am unable to os pono of the exaét produce of
the copper and iron mines of Sweden; doubilefs it muft
be-very large both to the proprietors and the King who
receives about afourth partoc:Yet notwithflanding® the
large Income of the Crown, itis by.no means-equal to
the
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