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fief, with the reversion to his family, that he might have no 

 uneasiness on this point. The emperor studied the works 

 of Brahe with the greatest ^eal, and often consulted with 

 him on political subjects also. Death, however, prema- 

 turely carried him off in 160I, in the 35th year of his age, 

 and frustrated the hopes which h^d been entertained from 

 the labours to which he had attached himself. In the church 

 pf Prague there is a beautiful monument greeted to him, 

 with an honourable inscription. 



At present there are rery few traces to be found in the 

 isle pf Ihveen of the obsgrvafory formerly occupied by 

 Brahe ; the present inhabitants are occupied entirely in 

 fishing and agriculture. Several hiviuli of the antient daj's 

 of paganism are to be found here, 1 



Helsingborg, an anlient city, and formerly a considerable 

 pne, has not yet recovered from the ruinous consequences of 

 the several sieges which it sustained in the wars between 

 Denmark and Sweden ; it has only about 1200 inhabitants.. 

 In summer this city is lively enough, on account of the 

 strangers who come to drink the waters of Ramlcesa, situ- 

 ated half a league beyond it ; the proximity of Copenhagen 

 produces a great crowd of the inhabitants of that city here 

 on Sundays and holidays. M. Eck there met with a good 

 company of Swedish comedians, who had established their 

 theatre in a barn, and who played several original pieces 

 and some imitations of Kotzebue, I (Hand, Schrseder and 

 Yunger, &c. Upon this occasion, M. Eck says a few 

 vvords upon the dramatic literature of Sweden, which has 

 within these few years suflc-rcd a sensible loss in consequence 

 of the premature death of JJdner, author of a Medea and 

 several other poems, which evince his genius. There is an- 

 other Swedish dramatic chef-d'oeuvre by another living au- 

 thor, Leopold ; it is entitled Oden ellcr Asarnes Utwan- 

 dring : "Odes, or Emigration of the Asarnes." M. Adler- 

 bcth, a'rcspectable old man, and counsellor to the chancery, 

 Jias published several dramatic works, which are distinguished 

 by a purity and dignity of language. Kcntll, who has been 

 dead some year.-", was the author of several good pieces ; an4 

 within Uicse few years, a young nian, Charles Lindegreen, 



has 



