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and helped to make Sweden an intellectual and 

 studious country. Near by is the monument of 

 dark porphyry, with the plain, shaven face in 

 bronze, wreathed with laurel, and the words 

 " Carolo a Linne Botanicorum Principi Amid et 

 Discipuli, 1798." 



Then we turn our steps to the University, the 

 pride and hope of Sweden. Here fifteen hundred 

 gather, not in dormitories which were tried fifty 

 years ago and discarded but scattered in various 

 homes, as in the German universities. Women are 

 educated here on equal terms with men, and we 

 are assured by the professors that, though admitted 

 only a few years ago, their presence is most help- 

 ful, arid the plan has proved entirely successful. 

 IN"O duels are allowed, these having been abolished 

 by stringent laws two hundred years ago ; a thing 

 Germany should long since have done, and thus 

 ended this brutal custom. 



Here is the Astronomical Observatory, the Chem- 

 ical Laboratory, Anatomy Building, Academic De- 

 partment, and handsome library with two hundred 

 thousand volumes and over seven thousand manu- 

 scripts. Here we look at the celebrated "Codex 

 Argenteus," a translation of the four Gospels by 

 Bishop Ulfila, dating from the second half of 

 the fourth century, written on one hundred and 

 eighty-eight leaves of parchment gold and silver 

 letters on a reddish ground ; and the manuscript 

 of Frithiof's Saga, by Tegner. 



Now we visit the Botanic Garden, which Linnseus 



