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THROUGH SWEDEN. 197
of their neighbours. They catch vaft numbers of pilchards, of
which they make great profit, it being the chief traffic of thefe
iflands.
It has been long in agitation to build a city in the ifle of Aland,
but the project has -not hitherto been carried into execution, ow-
ing, it is faid, to the difficulty of chufing a proper {pot for it.
The ufual route from Sweden to Finland is from the pott office
of Griflehamn in Upland, which is eleven anda half Swedifh
miles, to Ecker6 in Aland; and from that place acrofs the ifland
to Abo, which 1s five miles more. A Swedith mile makes be-
tween fix and feven Englifh miles.
In the year 1792 the number of inhabitants upon the ifland
of Aland amounted to eleven thoufand two hundred and fixty,
which is upwards of a thoufand to every fquare Swedifh mile; a
very great number when it is confidered how mountainous the
ifland is. The inhabitants of thefe iflands live to very great ages.
From the year 1692 to the prefent time, nine perfons are recorded
to have died at the great age of one hundred years; and perhaps
the number had been found greater, had it been thought worth
while to notice this particular. In 1703 there died a woman
named Anna Berg, who was one hundred and nine years old:
and at Kumblinge, in the year 1766, another perfon of the fame fex
died at an age of upwards of one hundred and twenty years. One
fixth part of the inhabitants are above fifty years old; a circum-
{tance which affords a convincing proof of the healthinefs of the
place.
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