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THROUGH SWEDEN. “175
~ are to move along. ‘The little open fledges, fuch as are ufed in
Stockholm on parties of pleafure, and made commonly in the
fhape of a cockle-fhell, feemed upon the whole moft eligible, on
account of their lightnefs, and their being fufficiently narrow for
the ftraiteft paflages. But thefe fledges, though convenient enough
for a fimall excurfion, become very fatiguing on a long journey ;
and in one of feven or eight hundred Englith miles would have
been altogether infupportable. Without fome particular precau-
tion, in adding a prop or fupport behind, it was impoffible to refift
the impulfe, or guide the movement and direction of the fledge,
in uneven parts of the road. During the whole of our journey we
were under the neceflity of being our own drivers. There were
at the time fome Finland fledges to be had at Stockholm, which
might have ferved equally for Sweden and Finland; but thefe
vehicles, ufed only in travelling through that part of Sweden
which les between Stockholm and Finland, were drawn by par-
ticular fets of horfes: The peafants, unaccuftomed to fuch
fledges, refufed to furnifh their horfes, as their harnefs did not
fait them. They complained that they were clumfy, awkward,
and heavy, becaufe they did not reft on iron but large wooden
fkates. As there is but very little travelling in Finland, the regu-
lations for the roads are not fo ftriét as in Sweden. The fnow
commonly lays deeper, and the inhabitants, accuftomed to the
form of their own fledges, fee no reafon for any road wider than
the only carriages they are acquainted with require.
The method of making roads, need in all the diftricts of the
North
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