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THROUGH SWEDEN. 189
{norted, bounded, and beat the fnow and ice with his feet; nor
could the utmoft exertions of the peafants to hold him faft have
prevented him from once more making his efcape, if we had not
retired to fome diftance, and removed the fight and the {cent of
our pelices From Signilfka we purfued our journey through the
whole of the ifles of Aland. In different parts of Aland you meet
with poft-houfes, that is to fay with places where you may get
horfes. You travel partly by land and partly over the ice of the
fea. The diftance between fome of thefe iflands amounts to no.
lefs than eight or ten miles. On the fea, the natives have ufed
the precaution of fixing branches of trees, or putting {mall pines
along the whole route, for the guidance of travellers in the night-
time, or directing them how to find out the right way after falls
of {now.
Between the two ftations of Heraldfby and Skorpas is fituated
‘on arock the famous fortrefs of Caftelholmen, every where en-
compafled by water, except on one fide, where it communicates
with an ifland by means of a narrow tongue of land. This caftle is
now in a ftate of ruin, and will perhaps never be reftored. It was
- built by Binger Jarl, adminiftrator of Sweden, and father of king
Weldeman. It became afterwards the refidence of the governors of
Aland, and continued fo till the year 1634. During the reign of
Eric of Pomerania, this caftle was inhabited by a foreign lady of
the name of Yda. Under Eric Puke it was, in confequence of his
orders, reduced by John Folkénfen. It was given in 1505 by the
regent Suante Sture to the Chevalier Eric, fon to John Vafa, and
father
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