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The building appropriated to the fittings of the courts is built 
of Rone clofe to the town, and upon the declivity of a rifing 
ground to the fouth-eafl, oppofite to the governor’s palace and 
tLe royal farm of Thorfholm. This edifice is feventy yards in 
length by twenty-feven in breadth, and thirty-three in height, 
and confifls of three {lories. In front it is ornamented with a 
clock. It is of the doric order of architecture, and is altogether 
one of the handfomefl buildings in the kingdom. On the frieze 
is obfervable the following infcription : “ Guftavus III. ft. S. 
“ anno Imperii XII. extruxit Themidique dicavit.” To the weft- 
ward is an open place, a hundred yards broad, and two hundred 
and fifty-five in length, called the market-place of Guftavus, from 
which, oppofite to the front of the houfe, runs an avenue of four 
rows of trees on each fide, a hundred yards broad, and five hun¬ 
dred long. Around the market-place are ereCted the houfes of 
the members of the tribunal, in a ftyle of perfeCt fymmetry. The 
inhabitants, for the ornament of the town, have begun to plant 
avenues of trees to the eafl, north and fouth of the railing that in- 
clofes the building. 
The town of Wafa is in a very improving condition, both as to 
the daily extenfion of its trade, and the increafing number of its 
commodities. As it now {lands, it covers a furface of fixteen 
hundred yards in length, and a thoufand in breadth, and contains 
to To great a diftance ; which feems to prove that tribunals and lawyers multiply 
lavv-fuits, juft as phyficians are faid fometimes to have added to the number of 
difeales. 
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