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the advantage of an univerfity education. If any of the youth 
whofe circumftances might not admit of an univerfity education, 
give indications of fine parts, and a genius for any department of 
fcience ; the infpectors, who are in general allowed to difcharge 
their duty with great diligence and fidelity, make a report of him 
to the king, who then orders that he may receive an education 
fuitable to his talents and his merit. I may take this opportunity 
to obferve, that the Swedifh clergy are for the mofl part regular 
and decent in their deportment, and attentive to the duties of 
their office. 
In the Swedifh dominions are three univerfities, that of Upfala, 
that of Lund, and that of Abo. Following, as ought to be 
done in a book of travels, the geographical order of the places, I 
begin with that of Lund, the capital of Scania, efleemed the 
moft ancient town in Sweden. It is fituated about fixty Swedifh 
miles * to the fouth of Stockholm, and fixty-feven of Upfala. It 
is the refldence of an archbifhop. The climate is remarkably 
falubrious ; the country around being plain, prefents in an open 
and extenfive view a horizon well adapted to obfervations in aftro- 
nomy. Acrofs the arm of the fea which divides Sweden from 
Denmark, you fee Copenhagen and the Daniffi fhores. The pro- 
feffors in the univerfity, including adjun£ls y or affiflants, are in 
number more than fifty ; the ftudents in common years three 
hundred. The library contains above twenty thoufand volumes. 
There is alfo a botanical garden at Lund, but of no celebrity ; the 
* The Swedifh mile is nearly equal to feven Englifh miles. 
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