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174 . TRAVELS
neys, with whatever they have got for the market, of three or
four hundred Englith miles. They have been known to travel
with their fledges about two hundred miles in ten or twelve days.
As there is generally no other mode of travelling in Sweden, or in
the North, during the winter, than by means of fledges, the va-
riety of them is fo great, that when the time arrived deftined for
us to purfue our journey northward, our variety of choice of fe-
veral kinds was not a little perplexing. They were not only dif-
ferent in ornament and form, but alfo in their conftruction and
manner of accommodating the traveller. When a perfon under-
takes a long journey in an unufual manner, his prudence never
fuffers him to believe that enough has been done ; and embarraff-
ments are encreafed through an over anxious multiplication of
the meafures that are adopted for avoiding them. But there
were really fome circumftances that obliged us to be very cir-
cum{pect and nice im our felection of the fledge that was to
carry us in our intended expedition from Stockholm towards the
north. The great and covered fledges, built like the body ofa
carriage, and placed on dkates, are certainly the warmeit, the moft
fociable, and in every refpect the moft commodious; but thefe
were by no means adapted to a journey through Finland. Here
it is neceflary to have fledges of a certain determinate width,
fuch as can be drawn by one horfe along the narrow roads, or
rather in the ruts or tracks of this country. In many places the
roads are bordered on both fides by fnow to the height of five
os fix feet, forming as 1t were two ramparts, between which you
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