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(1789) [MARC] Author: Matthew Consett
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48 A TOURCTHROUGH

Lh TF WE-R: ee

June 19, 1786..

4h morning we entered Uma, a beautiful well-
built town, fituated upon a fine River of the fame
name, where Ships are built of large burthen, ‘The river
runs on the fouth fide of the town and empties itfelf
into the Gulf of Bothnia, It gives its name to a part of
Swedifh Lapland in which it has its fource, from hence
called Uma Lapmark. It is too broad to admit of a
bridge which renders the paflage very incommodious, as
the ferries are very bad and ill fupplied. The Govern-
or of Welt rheorvih zalides. where, whichis about two.
miles north of Stockholm. 7

The fame night we arrived at Richlea the firt town
at which we flept in Lapland, The roads here are like
thofe we had left with rocks, woods, and, in the height
of Summer, burning fands, . The town of Richlea. vies
with, and indeed far furpafles, the towns in the Swedilh
territories in dirt and poverty. Beds, there were indeed,

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