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tain number of years at a stipulated rent. The advantage of 

 this arrangement has been already felt by the proprietor, and 

 baron Maklieri's example will soon be imitated by all the 

 other great proprietors. 



The nt)bles and several persons of distinction hav.- esta- 

 blished beautiful and useful gardens and orchards, but the 

 peasants have not been able as yet to imitate them ; every 

 one is afraid of being the first to have a garden, in case of 

 being robbed by his neighbours who have not similar planta- 

 tions. '^ 



Lund is a very antient city ; it was formerly much more 

 celebrated and important than it is at present. M. Eck 

 gives some curious details upon the history of this city. 

 When Charles X. passed through Lund in 1638, the learned 

 bishop Winstrup solicited his majesty to establish an uni- 

 versity there. The king granted his request ; but it was not 

 until the reign of Charles XL, his son, that the project was 

 executed. The inauguration took place on the 28th Janu- 

 ary 1668, being the king's birth-day, and it was named after 

 its founder, Acudemia Carolina Gothorum. The celebrated 

 Samuel Fuftendorf was called there from Heidelberg in order 

 to teach the law of nature and nations, and contributed not 

 a little to the splendour of this new university. 



Some curious and satisfactory details upon the state of 

 the sciences and learning in these countries at a remote 

 period will be found in the fourth part of the " Konigl. 

 Vilterhets, Historic och Anlixjuitats Handlingar." Stock- 

 holm, 1795, in Svo. 



It is said that a school was established at Lund in 1085. 

 Notwithstanding the rarity of books at that period, and al- 

 tliough, in 1317, ten marks of fine silver were paid for a 

 missal, the cathedral of Lund established a library so early as 

 1124. Scania may boast (^f being the country of the learned 

 Saxo Gramviaticus, whose real name was Lang, celebrated in 

 the thirteenth century for the elegance of his Latin style. 



The antient residence of the archbishop is at present the 



•tat of the ilniversiiy. On the south side there is in a court 



an a<:rctablc pronieiiade, the alleys of which are forn)ed by 



indi'icnuus trees ; it is called Lundagord, and is nni.ch fre- 



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