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stant importation of them from other countries. 

 When he was at Stockholm, there were thirty-six 

 wig-makers, and only one cutler forty-seven vint- 

 ners, and not 9. single chimneysweeper nineteen 

 coffee-roasters, though coffee had been prohibited 

 one hundred and thirteen keepers of ordina- 

 ries, and only one tool grinder; iron and tar 

 were to be had in plenty, but there was nothing 

 good manufactured in the country, excepting 

 Scania gloves, which are the best in the -world. 

 Almost every thing imported from England was 

 contraband, and, therefore, clandestinely sold, at 

 an immense price. The inferiority of Swedish 

 workmanship, and often the total want of the 

 article itself, is very striking a whole day may 

 be lost in searching for common necessaries. 



When Clarke was at Christiana, in Norway, a 

 rich merchant told him, that all the linen of his 

 family was annually sent to London to be washed. 

 "We cannot go," said he, ft to market, or to 

 shops, as you do in an English town : here, those 

 who would live handsomely, must collect into 

 their own warehouses from all parts of the 

 world, whatsoever they may want for a whole 

 year's consumption.*" Mr. H. says, " there are 

 few hands in Sweden expert enough to repair 

 machinery ; and the clumsy machines used in 

 the mines, is a proof of the small progress they 

 have made. As to gardens, scarcely any body 

 thinks of cultivating vegetables enough for them- 



