STATISTICAL ACCOUNT. 7 



1 Swedish tunna or barrel of corn is equal to 6-^ cubic 



feet, or 4f- bushels English. 



1 English bushel is equal to 1 762 Swedish cubic feet. 

 The Swedish tunna is divided into 8 fjerdings, 36 kappa, 56 



kanna. 



LIQUID MEASUEE. 



1 Swedish ankar is equal to 15 Swedish kanna. 

 l-^. Swedish kanna is equal to 1 gallon English, or in round 

 numbers 1 English gallon is equal to 1J Swedish kanna, 

 1 Swedish kanna is equal to 2 stooks, 8 quarters, 32 jungfru. 

 91^ kanna is equal to 1 English hogshead. 



WEIGHT. 



Victuallic is the standard weight of the country, and the 

 Swedish weights have lately been much simplified. The 

 present weights are 



1 skalpund Swedish (sk.) victuallic is equal to 14^-f- ounces 



English avoirdupois. 



1 centner or cwt. (ctnr.) is equal to 100 Swedish skalpund. 

 32 lod equal 1 skalpund. 



2 lod equal 1 uns (ounce) Swedish. 



The old lispund (20 skalpund), and skeppund (20 lispund) 



are no longer in use. 



1 skeppund or 400 skalpund equal 300 avoirdupois or 320 



victuallic weight. 



The total population of Sweden at the present day may 

 be reckoned in round numbers at 4,000,000 or 500 on each 

 geographical square mile. These are all of the old Scan- 

 dinavian race, if we except a few foreign settlers, 10,000 

 Fins, 5000 Laps of Mongolian race (in Norway I believe 

 there are 10,000 Laps), and about 1000 Jews. 



The female sex, owing, it is said, to the wars in the 

 seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, predominate over the 

 males at the rate of about 1059 to 1000. The population of 

 1863 was just double that of 1767. 



As may be supposed in such a country the population is 



