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of houfcs including thofe that were building, is upwards of v one 
thoufand one hundred ; which in 1780 contained two thoufand 
and forty-eight families. There are no few r er than five cuftom- 
houfes in this city. 
The cathedral church of St. Henry is covered w r ith wood in 
thin plates, or fhingles, laid one over the other. In length it is 
one hundred and fifty yards by fixty-three and a-half in breadth, 
and feventy-five in height. It is the only church in Abo, and is 
equally appropriated for the purpofe of public worfhip according 
to the Finlandifn and the Swedifh rituals. The Swedifh congre¬ 
gation begin their fervice at fix o’clock in the morning, that of 
the Finlanders at nine. The tower is covered with a copper roof, 
and furniflled with a clock, which is expofed, like all objedls that 
are raifed high in the air, to be Rruck with lightning : this ac¬ 
cident having befallen it on different occafions, it is now protedied * 
by a condudlor. 
The academy, confiRing of two Rories, is built of Rone, with 
three auditories, and a chamber for the academical confiRory. 
Flard by is a faloon for gymnaRic exercifes, and over it two apart¬ 
ments for the library. The cathedral fchool is not effentially dif¬ 
ferent from other fchools, as the bufinefs of education there is the 
fame with w T hat you find in every town, namely, a little Latin 
and Hebrew. The honourable appellation of cathedral is given 
to it merely becaufe it happens to be at a place which is the re- 
fidence of a bifhop. The chemical laboratory and the diflediing- 
room are included in the fame building ; one in the firfi, and the 
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