VEXIO  , or WEx16, a

town and bishop's see of Sweden, capital of the district (tan) of Kronoberg, 124 M . N.E. of Malmo by rail . Pop . (1900) 7365 . It is pleasantly situated among low wooded hills at the north end of Lake Vexio, and near the south end of Lake 1•Ielga . Its appearance is modern, for it was burnt in 1843 . The cathedral of St Siegfrid dates from about 1300, but has been restored, the last time in 1898 . The Smalar_d Museum has antiquarian and numismatic collections, a library and a bust of Linnaeus . There are iron foundries, a match factory, &c . At Ostrabo, the episcopal residence without the town, the poet Esaias Tegner died in 1846, and he is buried in the town cemetery . On the shore of Lake Helga is the royal estate of Kronoberg, and on an island in the lake the ruins of a former castle of the same name .