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176 TRAVELS
North in which I have travelled, after a great fall of fnow, is to
place a fort of triangle of wood, the bafe of which may be about
eight or ten feet, on rollers, where the paflage is to be, and to have
this frame drawn forward along the middle by horfes or oxen, the
acute angle or apex of the triangle being placed foremoft. In this
manner the {now lying on the middle of the way is pufhed to the
fides, and a paflage is thus rendered eafier for the {ledges that come
after. But this triangle removes or diminifhes only the quantity
of {now in the middle of the road, fo that the travellers who after-
wards may pafs that way make another rutt or furrow, proportion-
able to the width of their fledges: and as the fecond follows al-
ways ive track of the firft, this furrow, 1n the courfe of time, and
by new falls of {mow accumulating on the fides, becomes fo deep,
that it forms a kind of cafe which admits only fledges of the fame
dimenfion. Having weighed all thefe difficulties, and every ob-
ftacle and difadvantage we could think of, we Pelolved to content
ourfelves with fuch fledges of the peafants, as we might obtain
from one poft-houfe to another, and to travel im this manner as
far as Abo, where we might purchafe Finland fledges in the coun-
try itfclf, and purfue our journey ia our own equipage, fuch as it
would be, in order to avoid the inconvenience of fo frequently
moving and ftowing our luggage. We flattered ourfelves that
this expedient was the beft, and fet out perfectly fatisfied with
the refolution we had taken.
We departed from Stockholm on the 16th of March, 1799, at
feven o’clock in the morning, pafling through the north gate.
Enyeloped
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