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558 FORTIA’S TRAVELS IN SWEDEN.
bomb of eighty-eight pounds, befides at the fame time one of forty pounds*. M. de
Kiercher is employed on the map of Finland.
Diftributed among the three itations of the fleet at Sweabourg, Stockholm, and Abo,
there are one hundred and thirty-three gun boats, fixty-three yawls, forty galleys and
demi-galleys, about forty fquare built fhips, fuch as frigates, xebecs, cutters, &c. At
Land{crona, a fourth ftation is to be formed, on the plan of that of Abo. For man-
ning this fleet there are one thoufand two hundred and feventy-five men regiftered, that
is to fay, eight hundred and twenty-five in Finland, and four hundred and fifty in Swe-
den: the eight hundred and twenty-five are divided into fourteen companies, two of
which, of one hundred men each, for the two colonels at Sweabourg and Abo; three
of feventy-five, for the lieutenant-colonel and the two majors at Sweabourg ; and eight
of fifty, commanded by captains. The four hundred and fifty in Sweden form feven
companies, four of which of feventy-five men each, and three of fifty. The companies
remain the fame in time of war: they are engaged for fix years, receive 5 plottes per
month, and two pounds of bread per diem. Every three years they have furnifhed
them a jacket, wailtcoat, and three pair of breeches of blue cloth, which cofts 36 {chil-
lings an ell; two coats and two pair of breeches of coarfe grey cloth +, and two waift-
coats of coarfe unbleached cloth +; three pair of long pantaloons, and three aprons of
fail-cloth, which coft from 5 to 8 fchillings per ell; three pair of fhoes, (1 rix-dollar
eight {chillings,) and three pair of foles; four fhirts and four pair of woollen ftockings
(one with another from 16 to 20 {killings); two pair of Jong rolled up hofe, which
cover the thigh; two pair of leathern overalls; a hat (untrimmed 32 {killings, with
the band and hoop, &c. 24—1 rix-dollar 8 fchillings) ; and a hair (tiffener for the
neck (16 f{chillings). The cloak is given only once in nine years, the knapfack once
in fix years, and the mufket and bayonet the fame (6 rix-dollars).
At Sweabourg we faw fome fix-pounders, which had as many as forty calibers. Ex-
periments have been made of cannon to move on a pivot, but without fuccefs. We
had fome Ruffian pieces fhewn us almoft as long as cannon, the mouths of which were
ten inches in diameter, and from which they fire thirty three-pounders at a time; they
will carry from five to fix hundred fathoms; the Ruflians place two of them on the
poop of their Ships.
There is*an eighth ifland, perfectly contiguous to that in which the fortrefs is fitu-
ated, whence, in cafe of the enemy getting a ftation, it might be fuccefsfully attacked.
It is in contemplation to fortify it, which is highly neceflary, for it would be an eaf
matter to bombard thence, under cover of the rocks, not only the fortrefs but the flo-
tilla inthe harbour alfo. If the engagement of the gth of July had had a different re-
fult, it was intended that Sweabourg fhould have been attacked, and from this ifland
was it they meant it fhould be bombarded. ‘The Ruflians are in pofleffion of very exact
plans of this fortrefs, given them by the traitor Springporten f. j
The principal court of the fortrefs is regular and handfome: at the bottom is the
governor’s houfe, well furnifhed, nay much better than could be looked for on a rock
in the middle of the fea. Inthe court is a tomb elevated fome few fteps; it is that of
Mr. Ehrenfvard, the governor of the place, who formed the plan of the fortrefs.. In
* At the map and chart office at Stockholm, fome very handfome charts of the Baltic and the Gulph
of Finland, by Vice-Admiral Nordenanker, may be procured. ‘There were feven publifhed in 1791, which
number is to be made up ten: they are reported to be minutely correct, and coft but 24 killings each.
There are alfo three charts of lake Wener.
+ Ofhemp or flax.
$ We have been affured even at Peterfburg that the Ruffians had friends in the fortrefs, upon whom
they could depend; but this we are unwilling to believe.
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