196 VISIT TO DENMARK [1799. 



and ordered them to choose another. They pitched on 

 Count Fersen, with which the king was well pleased. 



The students here are for the most part extremely 

 poor : very many of them are farmers' sons. The 

 professors here seem of a rank superior to the common 

 run of those on the Continent. There are several 

 travelling pensions or bursaries, and we saw many 

 who had been in Lapland with these, even the length 

 of Enaratraok. 



The Society publishes the Upsala e Acta Erudi- 

 torum;' and corresponds with the Societies of Abo, 

 Stockholm, Gottenborg, and the Physiographical So- 

 ciety of Lund. They have many leading members, 

 Thunberg, Lilieblad, Afzelius, Gotling, Moravius. 



The university is much split into parties, the pro- 

 fessors always quarrelling. Ihre was much annoyed 

 by some of them. His retorts are much talked of, for 

 he was a man of wit. One of them meeting him on 

 the bridge said, " I never go out of my way for a 

 knave." "But I always do," said he, stepping aside. 

 The students, instead of fighting as in German uni- 

 versities, are rather given to drinking and singing, 

 but not to great excess. They seldom have strangers, 

 and are extremely civil and kind to you ; this we 

 experienced from the professors and the governor's 

 people very universally. 



After taking another view of the theatre, where 

 a Swedish oration was this day held (ladies being 

 admitted) on the same subject, we set off for Ekol- 

 sund, where we arrived at ten o'clock at night, after 



