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There are in the city of Malmoe several manufactories, 

 3.mong others, one of tobacco, where it is cut by a machine 

 worked by horses, and a cloth manufactory, which is very 

 extensive and remarkable ; it is upon the footing of the 

 English manufactories. Near the city there are fine gardens 

 and beautiful fields. 



Between Malmoe and Lund, near the road, is seen a large 

 family tumulus, open towards the north. In the inside there 

 is a space of two ells and a half high, three ells broad, and five 

 long. To the left of this place there is a small chamber, 

 four ells long, and about an ell and a hair' high. There was 

 nothing found e.xcept a large irons word, which is at present 

 preserved in the cabinet of the university of Lund, with se- 

 veral similar antiquities. Nearer Malmoe there are several 

 fine tumuli, but they have not yet been opened. Plenty 

 of them are to be found throuchout all Scania and Seeland, 

 and they have a pleasing effect. 



In the reign of Charles XL the study of the antiquities of 

 Sweden occupied much of the public attention ; since that 

 period they have been a little neglected, M. Tham, in- 

 tendant of the court, at present devotes himself with a most 

 praise-worthv zeal to researches upon the monuments of his 

 country; he has collected several upon his estate in West 

 Gothland, and has published a description and engravings 

 of them in a work, of which he is preparing a continuation *. 



The island of Ilween, situated between the coasts of Swe- 

 den and those of Denmark, is celebrated in the History of 

 Sciences from the circumstance of the Danish king Fre- 

 derick II., the grand protector of the sciences, and particu- 

 larly mathenialics and astronomy, having conferred it as a 

 fieff upon the celebrated astronomer Tycho Brahe, by a 

 solemn act, dated 15th May 157^. 



On the 8th of August, in the same year, the first founda- 

 tions were laid of the ma'iuilicent obseivalory of Ur;niien- 

 borg, and on the 14ih of December ibllowing Tycho Brahe 



♦ Oathiska Mouuirwnta sanilj.dc och bcskifne af Pchr Th;iiTi, Hof In- 

 tnidant; i.e. " Monuments of dot! land, collected rnd described by Pchr 

 Tham, Intcndant <.f the Court," Stockholm 179'1, in -Ito. 



f 'It..* isluiid w.ij ceded to SwoJcn by the \.cjlcc ol Roihichild in 1*>58. 



made 



