8 TEN YEAES IN SWEDEN. 



very unequally divided, and the southern provinces are just 

 ten times more populous than the northern ones. The 

 eighteen provinces lying south of Dalaroe, 60 north latitude, 

 deducting the lakes, contain 2389 geographical quadrilateral 

 miles, and their population in 1860 was 3,228,178, or 

 1357 to each geographical quadrilateral mile. While the six 

 northern provinces whose area, exclusive of lakes, is 4839 

 geographical quadrilateral miles, contained only 631,550 in- 

 habitants, or 130 to each geographical quadrilateral mile. 

 Thus Malmo Land in the very south had 3478, whilst 

 Norhotten, the most northerly province, had only thirty- 

 nine inhabitants to each geographical quadrilateral mile. The 

 proportion of the married people on land is about thirty- 

 three per cent. In towns not more than twenty-five per 

 cent., and in Stockholm not more than twenty-two per cent. 



Stockholm is the capital town of Sweden, and the only 

 one of any size. Its population in 1861 was 116,496. Next 

 to this is Gothenburg, which has the principal English and 

 American trade, with 38,504 inhabitants ; Norrkoping with 

 20,228; Malmo with 20,149; Carlscrona with 18,523; Gene 

 with 11,219, and all the rest with under 10,000. 



About one-eighth of the whole population reside in 

 towns ; the other seven-eighths, or 3,500,000 are scattered 

 over the country in villages, hamlets, or detached buildings. 



Out of 100 children born between the years 1856 and 

 1859 in Stockholm forty-two were illegitimate ; in the other 

 towns seventeen ; inland only seven (but this I think is too 

 little, at least in the country where I resided) . 



So in the moral scale Stockholm appears to stand lower 

 than any town in Sweden. It is singular that in Stockholm 

 there appears to be a larger proportion of women over the 

 men than in any town in Europe. In Stockholm French 

 fashions, I believe, are more in vogue than English. 



Most of the Swedish towns are well built, though still 

 a great deal of wood is used in building (and in this country 

 especially on land, I fancy a wooden house is better adapted 

 to the climate than a stone one, as being much warmer). 

 They are kept clean, lighted with gas, but usually ill-paved, 



