Reminiscences of Many Years (Volume 2) (Paperback)

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. 1830-31. SWEDEN ? BACKWARD STATE?WOLFSKALL ? GOVERNMENT ? PRISON REFORM?ARMY AND NAVY?LOYALTY?UNIVERSITIES?ROMANTIC AND CLASSICAL SCHOOLS?RELIGION? BIBLE SOCIETY?MYSTICISM. I Have compressed into the following pages the substance of an unpublished diary of my residence at Stockholm during the winter of 1830 and 1831. Severity of climate and paucity of population, owing partly to four-sevenths of its surface being under forest, and much under water, may account in part for the imperfect development of Sweden's physical, moral, and intellectual resources. But still it is not easy to assign sufficient reasons for the diminution of the value of land, the tardiness of its improvement, the notorious increase of wild beasts, the waut of public conveyances, save the steamboats plying in the neighbourhood of Stockholm, and even of an hotel tor the accommodation of strangers in that city. I speak of Sweden as I found it. Agriculture has been encouraged by the vicinity of rivers, and in certain districts by the timber and iron trades. But elsewhere, as in Scotland, land is comparatively undrained and neglected. The loans of corn, by which Government sought to stimulate improvement, have never been repaid, and the liberality of the Bank of Sweden advancing money VOL. II. E at two per cent, has been frustrated by the slowness of sale of land and precariousness of the return. The depreciation of the value of land now affected the incomes of the nobles and their mode of living. Nevertheless some progress has been effected, as has been proved by the fact that Sweden, instead of importing corn as heretofore, now exports it, the native wants being easily supplied. The badness of the tenures proves a serious drawback to improvement.1 Each parish is bound to maint...

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. 1830-31. SWEDEN ? BACKWARD STATE?WOLFSKALL ? GOVERNMENT ? PRISON REFORM?ARMY AND NAVY?LOYALTY?UNIVERSITIES?ROMANTIC AND CLASSICAL SCHOOLS?RELIGION? BIBLE SOCIETY?MYSTICISM. I Have compressed into the following pages the substance of an unpublished diary of my residence at Stockholm during the winter of 1830 and 1831. Severity of climate and paucity of population, owing partly to four-sevenths of its surface being under forest, and much under water, may account in part for the imperfect development of Sweden's physical, moral, and intellectual resources. But still it is not easy to assign sufficient reasons for the diminution of the value of land, the tardiness of its improvement, the notorious increase of wild beasts, the waut of public conveyances, save the steamboats plying in the neighbourhood of Stockholm, and even of an hotel tor the accommodation of strangers in that city. I speak of Sweden as I found it. Agriculture has been encouraged by the vicinity of rivers, and in certain districts by the timber and iron trades. But elsewhere, as in Scotland, land is comparatively undrained and neglected. The loans of corn, by which Government sought to stimulate improvement, have never been repaid, and the liberality of the Bank of Sweden advancing money VOL. II. E at two per cent, has been frustrated by the slowness of sale of land and precariousness of the return. The depreciation of the value of land now affected the incomes of the nobles and their mode of living. Nevertheless some progress has been effected, as has been proved by the fact that Sweden, instead of importing corn as heretofore, now exports it, the native wants being easily supplied. The badness of the tenures proves a serious drawback to improvement.1 Each parish is bound to maint...

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October 2010

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220

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978-0-217-26993-3

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