CHAPTER IV.

Demoralised State of the Swedish Nation. -Amount of Crime

in Sweden yearly.

In Norway. In Denmark.—In Scot-

land. In England and Wales. In London.

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In Ireland.

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Amount of illegitimate compared to legitimate Births in

Stockholm.-Low moral Feeling.-State Brothels.- Causes

of Demoralisation. Construction of Society. Dissolute

Court. Political Profligacy. - The Reformation. Differ-

ent Administration of Law in England. - Manners.

Drunkenness. Posting Regulations.- Swedish Money.-

Palace of Haga. — Labourers. Dress, - Diseases. - Po-

verty

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CHAPTER V.

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Hud-

Steam Vessel to Tornea. Isles and Rocks.- Naval Defence

of Sweden. - Gun Boats. Russia to Sweden. Gefle.-

Sodrehamn.

Heat.

Appearance of the Coast.

diksval. Stromming Fishery. Sundsval. Hernosand.-

Bishop Frantzen. Umea. Real State of these little Towns

compared to those on the Scotch Coast. Inns. Booksel-

lers' Shops. Raw Salmon. Roads to Lapland. - Jour-

ney. Aases. Colonists in the Forest. - Degerfors.

- A religious Sect

called Lasere among the Settlers in the Forest. - Their Ha-

bits. -Increase. Probable Benefit. -Fishing Apparatus.

-A kind of Earth used as Meal. Bark Bread. - Educa-

tion. Generally instructed State. Peter Læstadius.

Account of his Parents. Viaticum to Poor Scholars.

Vegetation. -Angermanland. - Weaving. - State of the

People. - Husbandry. - Returns from Seed.-Churches.

-Journey.-Rivers.- Sundsval. - Important Position. -

Projected Fortification of Vannes. - Stockholm depending

on Finland. - Import of Necessaries. Removal of the

Capital

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Cheap Travelling. Aases.-Gefle. - Population. - Moral

leys. Husbandry. Upsala. - Old Upsala. - Temple of

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Odin.

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University. Lund and Upsala.

Salaries. Students.

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Numbers studying the different

Sciences. Classes of Society to which they belong.-

Number of Nobility at the Universities small. — Clergy.

Number of Congregations. Proportion to the

Pressure on the Country. - Clerical Dues.

- Lutheran Religion.

- Behind the religious

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Number.

Population.

Education.

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Wants of this Age. Want of Influence on Morals. - Lite-

rature.-Printing.- Price of Books. The Historian Geyer.

-Sigtuna. City of the Saga

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CHAPTER VII.

ment. Of the People. - Unfounded Calumnies against the

Emancipation of the Jews. -

Treaty with Russia. --Land in Sweden. Hemmans.

soken, Utsoken. Sateri. Privileges. Proportions of

Taxes paid by different Classes.- Agricultural Population.

-Manufacturing and Town Population. - Public Function-

aries. Statistical Table Commission. - General Diffusion

of Education and Religious Knowledge. Why without In-

fluence on the moral Condition of Sweden. Want of free

Use of Property.-House Servants in Husbandry. - Married

Servants in Husbandry. States of their Income. · Pea-

santry. Qualifications for the Diet. People of Condition,

lity. Qualifications. Numbers. Privileges. - Poverty.

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- Analysis of the Diet. - Con-

stitution. Power of Revisal.

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Jury. Lagmans' Courts.

Hof Courts. Fault of the Courts. Useless Functionaries.

False Appearances of importance in the Swedish Govern-

ment

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CHAPTER VIII.

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Steam to the Island of Gothland. - Saint Olaf. Tobacco. -

Evening Scenery.-Oaks.-Buoys.- Westerwick. - Wisby.

Ancient Town Walls. - Ruins. Ancient Greatness.

Old Churches. Saxon and Norman Style of Architecture

in Churches built in 1086.- Purity of Taste.

Marks on old Tombs. - Port of Wisby. - A

Country. Price of Land. Soil. - Climate.

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Heritors. Island of Gothland.- Formation.- Organic Re-

mains. - Population.- Moral Condition.-Crime.- Punish-

ment. Inquisition not abolished in Lutheran Countries,

but transferred from the Church Courts to the State. - Dif-

ferent Ideas of Crime in different Countries. Different Prin-

ciples on which Punishments are awarded in different Coun-

tries. — Political Importance of the Position of Gothland in

the Baltic. Russia. - Swedish Policy. - Mildness of Cli-

mate.-Runic Inscriptions.-Berzelius. Return to Sweden.

-Jonkiopping.-Taberg. -The Wetter Lake.-The Coun-

try between the Wetter and Wener Lakes. Between the

Wener Lake and Glommen. - Beds of Shells of existing

Species at Uddevalla. Rise of the Land. - Return to Nor-

d'Etat in 1836.-Why unsuccessful. - Conservative Power

of the Civil Institutions. -Storthing. — Public Institutions.-

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State of Denmark and Norway under opposite Systems of

Legislation. Public Debt of Denmark. Of Norway.-

Direct Taxes. Post-Office Transmission of Newspapers in

Norway. Foreign Newspapers. - Norwegian Newspapers.

-Editorial Talent.. Political Economy. -

Winter of 1836

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ments of the lower Classes. Cold. - Calmness.- Mon-

tagnes Russes. - Peasants' Costume. Feasts. Coffee and

Sugar, or Milk, the best Breakfast for a Nation ?-Dead Bear.

- Lynx. - Environs.- Shape of Peninsula

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CHAPTER X.

Will the Dynasty of Vasa or of Bernadotte finally prevail in

Sweden?-State of the Question.

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Permanency of the new Dynasty considered.

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ish History from the Assassination of Gustavus III.

Charles XIII. - Character and Conduct.- Gustavus IV.

Character. · Diet.― Prince of Augustenburg. — Candidates

for the Succession. Bernadotte. Views of Parties at his

Election.

Parties opposed to it. The Legitimate. The Lutheran.

The Liberal. Mistaken Policy of the new Dynasty. - Op-

position to liberal Institutions. Persecution of the Press.

Captain Lindenberg. Awkward Dilemma of Government

from his Heroism. Character of his Majesty. - False Prin-

Acquistion of Norway adverse to the

OBSERVATIONS,

&c. &c.

CHAPTER I.

ISOLATED POSITION

OF SWEDEN AMONG THE EUROPEAN
HANOVERIAN IMPOST ON GOODS IN
HAMBURGH. -LAKE.

GAS

POWERS. STEAM.
TRANSIT ON THE ELBE.
LIGHTS.- CAPITAL EMPLOYED IN COMMERCE OR IN MANU-
FACTURE, WHICH MOST BENEFICIAL.
MENT IN 40 YEARS.
AND NOTHING BY THEM.

KIEL.

IMPROVE

ZEALAND.

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STONES ON THE SURFACE.

SOIL. COPENHAGEN. DESPOTIC POWER CONFERRED IN 1660. LORD MOLESWORTH'S REMARKS ON THE EFFECT OF LUTHERANISM ON CIVIL LIBERTY. -ACTUAL ARRANGEMENTS OF THE ABSOLUTE GOVERNMENT OF DENCHECKS.— BENEFICIAL INSTITUTIONS. EFFECT ON THE CONDITION OF THE DANISH PEOPLE.

· PROPORTION OF PUBLIC FUNCTIONARIES. CAUSES OF POVERTY IN DENMARK. NORWAY.

SALT WORK. - HOLMESTRAND.

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NORWEGIAN

IMPLEMENTS

BIRCH POLES INSTEAD OF ROPES.

THE ROLLING OF LAND.

RAPIDITY OF VEGETATION.

VALLEY OF THE GLOMMEN. LANDS OF FIRST QUALITY ONLY CULTIVATED. RICARDO'S THEORY

OF RENT EXEMPLIFIED. CANADA AND NORWAY NEVER CAN REPAY CAPITAL EXPENDED IN AGRICULTURE. COST OF TRAVELLING.- KONGSVINGER.

CARLSBAD.- SALMON OF THE WENER LAKE. ARVIKA.- COUNTRY FROM THE GLOMMEN TO THE WENER. -ELEVATION ABOVE THE SEA.-STATE OF PEOPLE AND HOUSES.- DEVELOPMENT OF CIVILISED HABITS.-CHRISTINIHAM. ROLLED STONES. COTTAR POPULATION. — WESTERAAS.

SWEDEN with her splendid court, and her numerous and powerful nobility and clergy, forming

B