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194 TRAVELS
CHAPTER XT.
An Account of the Iles of Aland—Their Situation, Name, and Hi/-
tory—Parifhes and Civil Regulations—Soil and Produce—The
Inhabitants; their Manners and Cuftoms— Natural Hiffory:
Quadrupeds, Birds, amphibious Animals, Fifhes, Infects, Plants,
and Minerals.
HE ifle of Aland, with its dependant iflands, to the number
of eighty, moft of them fmall, but inhabited, are fituated
between the gulfs of Bothnia and Finland, in latitude 59 degrees
47 minutes, to 602 degrees north, and longitude 36 degrees
57 minutes, to 39 degrees and 47 minutes.* In refpect to its ex-
tent, Aland conftitutes the {malleft of the poffeffions belonging to
the crown of Sweden, containing only eleven {quare Swedifh
miles, or about feventy-feven Englifh, being in length about
twenty Englifh miles, and in breadth about fixteen.
The name of Aland feems to be derived from the ancient
Gothic A, which fignifies water, and the word land; fo that
Aland together is the fame in meaning as ifland. This appears
to be the moft natural etymology, though various writers have
* From the meridian of Ferro. Reckoning from the meridian of London, the
longitude would be from 19 degrees 17 minutes, to 22 degrees 7 minutes eaft.
indulged
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