THROUGH SWEDEN. 
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Mr. Melanderhielm, a mathematician; Mr. Rofenftein, formerly 
preceptor to the king, and fecretary of the Swedifli academy ; Mr, 
B. Ferner, preceptor to Guftavus IIL when prince royal of 
Sweden; Mr. John Van Angenftroem, author of a Guide to the 
Mines for the ufe of travellers (he has now 7 given up the fciences, 
and betaken himfelf wholly to agriculture) ; Mr. C. J. Strand, 
keeper of the archives of the kingdom ; Mr. G. Adlerbeth, anti¬ 
quarian of the kingdom, and perpetual fecretary to the academy 
of belles-lettres (he publilhed fome wretched tragedies) ; Mr. A. F. 
Riftel, lately librarian to his majefty, a poet, and tranflator of fe- 
veral fpeeches in Salluft; Mr. J. H. Liden, profelfor of hiftory; 
Mr. J. Murrberg, mailer of the cathedral fchool of Stockholm, 
an elegant hillorian (he wrote an account of Chriftian’s refidence 
at Stockholm in 1520); Mr. J. Hallenberg, hiftoriographer of 
the kingdom; Mr. C. J. Nordin, dean and hiftoriographer of the 
royal orders; he has written, in the Memoirs of the Academy, 
the Lives of Illuftrious Swedes; Mr. F. J. Neikter, profelfor of 
eloquence at Upfala; Mr. Porthan, profelfor of eloquence in the 
univerfity of Abo; Mr. Everhand, profelfor of the oriental lan¬ 
guages. 
The regulations of this academy are much the fame with thofe 
of the academy of inferiptions and belles-lettres at Paris. The 
new 7 academy at Stockholm for the cultivation of the Swedifh 
language, is likew ife formed nearly on the model of the Academie 
Frawjoife, except that the number of the members of the Swedifli 
academy is only eighteen inftead of forty. The Swedifh Academy, or, 
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