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The Floral King. 45
river: it is so wide that no one can shoot across it
with a gun; flows calmly, and has its falls in
other places.
“Should then proceed to Lykelde, the first
church to be met with in the Lapmark, six miles
sea-route (about forty English miles) by hop (boat)
made by fir planks, thin and fastened together with
ropes, equal in both ends; two can sit in it, some-
times also carry forty pounds dried fish, one of the
men rows with two oars, the man carries it on his
head one or two fjardingsvig, (viz.: one = one and
a-half English miles). The oars the man carries on
his shoulders.
‘‘T visited Pastor Gran, in Liixela; there they
also have a fair at times. I was treated to bread;
themselves are very frugal; also butter, cheese,
fish, meat, brandy and tobacco. There I got a
man, a new settler in the clearings, who was
exempted from all taxes, and had settled in the
Lapmark where corn still can grow. We proceeded
up the river along the strand, where there was no
particular current, still we had to work hard at
rowing; the ice was still lying along the strand,
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