478 . FORTIA’s TRAVELS IN SWEDEN .

for the library is 1000 plottes per annum, a fum which appeared to us iaconfiderab'.eindeed.

The minera 7 ogical cabinet, under the management of Mr. AfzeUus, profeffor of chemif-try, is claffed agreeably to the fyftem of Cronjledt; the Councillor of mines, Swab, fil'dbegan the collection. The univerfity has pofieffed it ever fince 1750, and it has beenconfiderably augmented by the celebrated Bergmann : it is now very complete, particu-larly as to what regards the minerals peculiar to Sweden . Thefe entirely fill one cabi-net, to the number of three thoufand fpecimens ; the general collection is contained inabout forty large cafes. We faw here alfo fome (tones engraved, none of which wereremarkable ; a number of cryftaliizations and petrifactions peculiar to Sweden , of butlittle intereft ; fome fhells alfo, but in no great number. The mod valuable article inthis cabinet is fome majfrve, native and artificial gold, found at Nertchinjkoi in Siberia ,analyzed by Mr. Bergmann'. A number of mineralogifts doubt, but unjuftly, the ex-it! ence of this fpecimen. In a fmall cabinet are feen the models of the pumps, furnaces,and other utenfils employed in mines. There is but a very poor chemical laboratory.Mr. Afzelius, in April, 179!, had but thirty fcholars, a matter which, appeared to mevery fingular in a country, the mines of which form its principal wealth, and in whichchemiftry (houid confequentlv be cultivated above all other fciences.

The cabinet of Mr. Thunberg is exceedingly curious from the beauty of the fpecimenscollected, and their number; for it embraces objects of more than one description,although wholly analogous to natural hiftory : Mr. Thunberg has travelled a greatdeal, and has himfelf feleCled a great number of interefting articles: he has been atJapan , and even in the capital, owing to a concurrence of circumftances which few Eu-ropeans have had the good fortune to meet with: of animals and birds thefe are themolt remarkable : the Horfe of the Cape of Good Hope ; a head of the Ant-eater, fromthe fame place ; a Buffalo, idem ; the American Ant-eater ; a white Fox ; a Stag, fromthe iiland of Java, a vdry rare fpecimen; an animal refembling the Ermine , with a muchlonger body; three fpecies of Sloths, from America , Ceylon without a tail, and fromJava, the latter very rare; a China Pheafant; a male and female Eyderdown Duck ;three fpecies of the Alca arttica, very rare ; a colledtion nearly complete, of the birdspeculiar to Sweden , and a number of other animals and birds ; a very beautiful collec-tion of butterflies: the Atlas of Ceylon, a female, meafuring nine inches from the ex-tremity of one wing to the other; the male is not fo large as the female: the Luna ofSurinam, rare ; the Priam, from the iflands of Banda and Amboyna, cods 25 ducats inHolland ; the Laternaria, a fpecies of Fulgora, from Surinam , extremely rare ; Pncu-mores , maculates, immaculate, and fexguttatee, rare, particularly the lad named, fromthe Cape of Good Hope ; a fuperb collection of infeCts, crabs, and crayfifh, fpiders,fcarabasi, bees, &c.; a new feurabaeus of the Gideon fpecies, with three horns, unique ;corals and marine plants; a herbary of plants of all countries, confiding of nearly twentythoufand fpecimens; a large piece of trapp of three colours; the bafe reddifli, green andwhite, twenty inches long by fixteen wide, engraven en cameo, tn China , after the an-tique, and reprefenting leaves and fruit; an exceeding rare and valuable article : fomefl ells: a fpindie, ( Eujfeau,) fingular on account of its fize, being nearly feven inches ; adied from Jamaica ot the Teliina genus ; and another from Japan yet undeferibed ; anIfogonum, .extremely rare, of five inches and a half; a Placenta, five inches in diameter;a Hammerfijh, feven inches and a half at the end, the handle fix inches long; a Patella,from Japan , nondefeript. A Po'ijh cap, nearly two inches. In the adjoining gardenare five or fix thoufand exotic plants, as well of Sweden as from foreign countries, ingreen-houles and in the open air. Mr. Thunberg had a hundred fcholars. His cabinet

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