{54} The University of Upsala is the most celebrated in the north.
It owes its origin to Sten Sturre, the regent of the kingdom, by
whom it was founded in 1476, on the same plan as the University of
Paris. Through the influence of the Jesuits, who wished to
establish a new academy in Stockholm, it was dissolved in 1583, but
re-established in 1598. Gustavus Vasa, who was educated at Upsala,
gave it many privileges, and much encouragement; and Gustavus
Adolphus reconstituted it, and give it very liberal endowments.
There are twenty-four professors, and the number of students is
between four and five hundred. - ED.
{55} See novel of Ivar, the Skjuts Boy, by Miss Emilie Carlen.
{56} At Calmar was concluded, in 1397, the famous treaty which
bears its name, by which Denmark, Sweden, and Norway were united
under one crown, that crown placed nominally on the head of Eric
Duke of Pomerania, but virtually on that of his aunt Margaret, who
has received the name of "the Semiramis of the North." - ED.
{57} There is now a railway direct from Hamburgh to Berlin. - ED.
{58} A florin is about two shillings sterling. - ED.
{59} Herr T. Scheffer of Modling, near Vienna, gives the following
characteristic of this new dipteral animal, which belongs to the
family muscidae, and resembles the species borborus:
