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work of M. Eck, from which we are now about to give some 

 extracts, is the fruit of a two months' stay which the author 

 made, in Scania, one of the finest provinces in Sweden. 

 M. Sjaeborg, of Lund, is at present occupied in wruir.;: a 

 statistical, geographical and historical description of it ; and 

 to his pen we are already indebte<l for an excellent descrip- 

 tion of the province of Bleklngia, published at Lund in 

 17S2 and 1793, in two vols. Svc. 



There is no country in which persons can travel so e>:pe- 

 ditiously, or at so little expense, as in Sweden. Although 

 there are no post horses similar to those established in the 

 other countries of Europe, a royal ordinance regulates the 

 terms on which the peasants and the inhabitants of the 

 towns are obliged to let out for hire the necessary horses for 

 travelling, and the price of this accommodation is extremely 

 moderate. Persons travelling may also be accommodated 

 with a small four-wheeled country carriage; but it is not at 

 all convenient, and travellers had much better bring their 

 own equipage. The horses are small and slender, but they 

 run with great swiftness ; the roads are good ; the car- 

 riages are often driven by young boys of ten years of age, 

 and sometimes by young girls ; these children, however, 

 alwavs drive with great care : according to the Jast regula- 

 tion, which is dated in 1765, every traveller has a right to 

 require that they shall drive him a Swedish mile in an hojjr, 

 which is nearly equal to three leagues. In every inn there 

 is a register, where everv traveller may inscribe whether he 

 has been well or ill driven, the place to and from which he 

 travels. In the inns in the country, scarcely any thing else 

 than spirits, and some milk, or bread and beer, h to be found. 

 M. Eck therefore advises travellers to bring provisions along 

 with them. 



Scania is fourteen Swedish miles long and eleven broad. 

 It contains about go square miles, and 219,830 inhabitants, 

 being a proportion of 2,442 for every square Swedish mile. 



The climate of Scania, and of Blekinoia in its neighbour- 

 hood, is milder than the rest of Sweden. In spring the 

 nightingale visits these countries, and the stork builds her 

 nest there ; which cannot be said of ihe more northern di- 

 stricts. 



