MODERN HISTORY. 



served iiro that kingdom. From Charles to 



Suercher II. that is, to the year 1 1 o, there 



were twenty- two other kings who reigned in Swe- 



den, duriru: c or' ^02 years: and trom 



Eric IX. ht, whn liiccecded Suer- 



cher II. tliere is a fncceffion of forty kings, who 



::h throne, down to the pre- 



, during 615 years; This long fenes of 



izz kwgs is very "lorioufty terminated by the 



i:ng monarch Frederic Adolphus, a prince 



of the houfe of Holftein. The hiftory of Lap- 



land, as far as any hiftory can be found of that 



tountry, is entirely included in that of Sweden. 



XXVI. XVIII. rbe Hi/lory of Ru/ia. All that 

 we can fay of the ancient hiftory of Ruffia is^ 

 that tl.is country was the hive from whence that 

 innumerable fv.urm of people ifTued, which over- 

 ran all Europe, jnd part of Alia an<! Africa. 

 It would be and frivolous entcrpiife to 



endeavour to invcftrgnte either the ancient hif- 

 , or that of the middle age,- of this immenfc 

 country, as no written accounts of them have 

 come to our knowledge The foundation of this 

 and formidable empire, which was civilized 

 by the labours of Peter the Great, ami or thole 

 princtfies who h ;ic the fceptre after him, 



.ml who at this d.iy make fo confpicuous a ! 

 on the theatre of the world, *tvas not laid till the 

 ninth cc . I lie lame 



i rants of this 

 country as to thofe of Poland and )' 



The 





