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THROUGH SWEDEN. bg
of rendezvous for travellers by fea or land. It has Oe Gare.
merce, manufactures, nor houfes fit for the accommodation of
ftrangers. It confifts of nothing more than the poft-mafter’s ha-
bitation, which is built of brick ; and a number of wooden cabins
around it, which are occupied by peafants. The harbour of Grifle-
hamn, though not very capacious, is excellent, particularly for
{mall veffels. Two tongues of land jetting into the fea fecure it
from both the eaft and weft winds, while a {mall ifland, fituated
nearly in the middle between them, breaks the force of the waves
that are driven againft the coaft by the winds which agitate the
Svhole mafs of the Bothnian fea in its direction from the North.
On one of thefe tongues of land a telegraph is erected on a com-
manding height, which is the only one that ] faw in Sweden. It
was conftructed by order of Guftavus III., during the war i Fin-
land, on a plan given by Mr. Edelkrantz, member of two Swedifh
academies above noticed. This telegraph, by intermediate fta-
tions, communicates with the capital as well as Finland, at times.
when, from the weakne(s of the ice, a paflage over the gulf is
impracticable. ae
When a traveller is going to crofs’ over the gulf on the ice to
Finland, the peafants always oblige him to engage double the
number of horfes to what he had upon his arriving at Griflehamn.
We were forced to take no lefs than eight fledges, being three in
company, andtwo fervants. This appears at firft ight to be anim-
pofition on the part of the peafants; but we found, by experience,
that it was a neceffary precaution. The diftance acrofs is forty-
three
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