Travels in Various Countries of Scandinavia; Including Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Lapland and Finland - By E. D. Clarke - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838. Excerpt: ... ABO. O State of Abo--its situation with regard to other Seminaries of Learning--its Commerce--Visit to the different Professors--Frantzen--his genius for poetry--Specimen of one of his Odes--Porthan--Account of the University--. Difficulties encountered by the Professors'--Disasters to which Abo has been liable--Cathedral--Ludicrous mistake--Effect of an Organ upon some Natives of Savolax--Interesting Cippus in the Chorus Tottianus--Statues and Pictures--Inscription in memory of Catherine, Widow of Eric XIV.--Historical Documents concerning this remarkable Woman--Swedish Legend upon her Daughter's coffin--Manuscripts pieserved in a brazen coffer--Histories of Eric's Reign--Portraits of VOL. XI. T Luther Luther and Melancthon--Image of Henry the Martyr--Chapel of Olaus, Bishop of Abo--Monument of a Scotch Officer--University Library--Manuscripts--Typographical Rarities--Theatrum Anatomicum--Auditory of Disputations--Professor Gadolin--Collection of Minerals--Professor Hellenius--Botanic Garden--Hellenius'j private Collections--Comparative Estimate of the two Universities, Upsala and Abo--State of Society. 0 Abo ranks next to Stockholm and Gothenburg, in point of grandeur; and, if we except the two last, is the largest town in all Scandinavia. It contains ten thousand inhabitants; whereas the city of Upsala has only three thousand. Its trade is very considerable; and is carried on chiefly with the interior parts of Finland, of which country it has long been the metropolis. Cut off" by its situation from any frequent intercourse either with the Academies or commercial cities of Europe, its very name, as a University, rarely reaches the literary circles of the world: yet it boasts of many distinguished men, whose talents have fitted them to shine among the hi...