524 
Thus the average population of an 
English square mile wou!d be about sixty- 
five individuals, and not 243, as stated 
by your Cor But in some 
provinces the inhabitants are so thinly 
scattered, that Herjedalen, for instance, 
has only ‘four, Jamteland 10, and West- 
bothnina 24 persons, on the English square 
mile. The governments of Stockholm, 
Gothenburg, and Malmoe, are the most 
populous. 
Mr. Gustavus Hedin, rector of the 
parish of Krakimge, near Strengnas, in 
Sweden, has kept his parish registers 
from 1739 to 1776, in a manner worthy 
to be imitated by all country clergy- 
men. He bas taken particular and ac- 
curate notice of the ages of the persons 
whom he joined in wedlock, and found 
that, in the course of thirty-seven years, 
the age at which the parties that were 
married at his church had entered into 
matrimo Ny, Was as follews:— 
Yrs. of Age. Males. Females. 
15 : 0 . 2 
16 - 0) : 2 
17 F 6) 10 
18 . 2 ° 17 
19 . 3 y 17 
20 ‘5 8 ‘ 26 
21 3 10 ° 18 
22 a 20 : 23 
23 : ad F 23 
24, “ 34 : Q4, 
25 . 29 . Q4 
26 29 - 26 
27 . 27 - 23 
28 . 20 : 20 
29 ° 25 : 12 
7 30 a al , 15 
31 : 24 é 14 
32 ° 15 ; il 
33 . 10 9 
34: . 11 12 
35 3 F 5 
36 : 6 : (A 
37 : 4A 3 
38 : 7 : 2 
39 < 1 : 3 
40 . 1 b 7 
41 Z 3 ‘ 2 
42 é 3 . 1 
43 : i . 3 
44 - O t i 
45 : 8) : 2 
46 : e) 2 af. 
rf A 8) 2 u 
48 L 0 : ei 
49 2 1 . 1 
50 : @) . 2. 
51 1 0 
It appears from this enumeration, that 
Statistical Statement of ihe Kingdonmof Sweden. 
e 
[Jan. 1, 
spinsters need not despend before thirty~ 
four, or even forty years of age, and that 
their situation, 1 not voluntary, is not ab- 
solutely hopeless, before the fiftieth year; 
but old batchelors date from the thirty- 
fourth year, and seem perfectly recon- 
ciled with celibacy at forty-four. This in- 
ference, however, bears only upon a 
country where great simplicity of manners > 
prevails, and upon a period half a century 
distant from our times. How interesting 
would such statements of modern large 
cities be to the moral philosopher, and 
the politician! 
The registers of the same Swedish pa- 
rish state, that out of three-hundred and 
four married women, thirty-four were 
childless: twenty-eight had each one 
child only; thirty-three had two children 
each; forty, three; twenty-nine, four; 
thirty-two, five; thirty-four, six; twenty- 
eight, seven; twenty-two, eight; eight, 
nine; eleven, ten; three, eleven; one, 
thirteen; and one, sixteen; making in all 
1510 children, to 270 mothers. ‘wenty- 
seven of them had only sens; thirty- three, 
only daughters; fiity, as many sens as 
daughters; elghty-eight, more sons than 
daughters; and seventy-tw 0, more daugh- 
ters than sons. 
Hardly the tenth part of the population 
of Svteden is collected in towns. All 
Sweden contains only 105 market towns, 
nine of which count 4,000 inhabita ants, 
and more; the other nimety-six reckon 
scarcely 300 inhabitants upon an average, 
very tew of whom exercise any Lown trades 
or handicrafts. ‘The towns lie scattered 
about at very great distances from each 
other. Jn the whole province of Herje- 
dalen, which is nearly 120 English miles 
broad, there is not a single | town; ; neither 
is there any in the still more extensive 
province of Jamteiand. Stockholm, in 
1802, reckoned upwards of 80,000 inha- 
bitants. The laxity of morals which pre- 
vails in that capital, seems to be clearly 
deducible from the two following circum= 
stances. The proportion of illegitimate 
chiudren to children born in wedlock, 
from 1789 to 1798, was one’ in three, 
whilst at Berlin it is only one in eight, and 
in all the great towns of France one in 
nine. At Munich,itisone infour. The 
second circumstance is, that out of 1,460 
diseased persons, who were admitted into 
the infirmaries at Stockholm, during the 
year 1806, not less than 261 had the ve- 
nereal complaint. This disease is said 
to commit dreadful ravages even in_ the 
country, and is, no doubt, ene of the 
causes why the progress of population i is 
not 
