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2 A TOUR. THROUGH
LE Tore Bk xIV.
Tornao, 24th. Fune.
_ leave Pithia and ‘palling o1 over a large extent
of country, very little of which is good, the great-
er part, bad, and indifferent, a better profpeét prefents
itfelf before us. Here Plenty might have been expe@ed -
from the apparent good quality of the foil if the people’
were inclined to induftry,» But, alas! on account of’
their. indolence, and ignorance in the art of Agriculture,
Poverty, nea HORE continues to opprels them.
“ rarbiee wha ths 1
mrt
After song & a very indifferent Ferry we “tee sa at a
{mall but neat town called Gambelfladen, where it is
recorded, that King Charles XI. of Sweden, on his return
from Tornao, humouroufly declared, that he ‘had in his
tour met with three very extraordinary circumftances ;
the firft was, feeing the Sun at midnight at Tornao; the
fecond, that in crofling the Ferry, a large Salmon leaped
into the boat ; and laftly, that wen he attended divine
Service
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