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182 TRAVELS
CHAPTER XI.
Griflehann—The Paffage acrofs the Gulf to Finland dangerous in
Summer to navigate, and in Winter frozen over fo as to bear Sledges
—The Author’s Journey acrofs the Ice. Difficulties attending it,
and Adventures that happened—Seals, or Sea-Calves, living on and
under the Ice. Manner of hunting them—The Ifles of Aland.
Some of them mentioned by Name: the Fortrefs of Caftleholmen
—Anecdotes from a Converfation with a Peafant.
RISLEHAMN is a fmall poft town, where all travellers {top
in their way to or from Sweden or Finland, whether in
fummer or winter. The navigation of the ftraits here is extremely
dangerous, as well as difagreeable. There is only one paflage for
large veffels, and the mariners are always in terror of ftriking on
the rocks which are every where fcattered in this formidable fea.
In winter a paflage is very rarely attempted, but when the whole
furface is frozen to fuch a degree of folidity as to bear a fledge.
When this is not the cafe, as fometimes happens during a mild
and open winter, thofe perfons who have occafion to travel from
Sweden, either to Finland or Ruffia, are under the neceflity of
going by the way of Tornea all round the gulf of Bothnia. Grifle-
hamn is not remarkable on any account, except its being a place
of
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