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The citizens are divided into three clafles or focieties, viz. of
merchants, common tradefmen, and Finland burgefies. They
are formed into train-bands, or a kind of militia, confifting of
three companies of foot, each of about fixty or feventy men, which
are placed under the command of an officer called the town-
major. The city-guard isa {mall body of men (about thirty-five),
who perform the common duties of watchmen, for the fecurity
and quict of the inhabitants. “The town has three water-engines,
and, in addition to thefe, the cathedral and academy have fix.
Here alfo is an hofpital, where upwards of forty perfons can be
accommodated. The lazaretto is intended for the fick that belong
to the government of Abo exclufively. The Magdalen hofpital
is a charitable inftitution upon a {mall {cale; it has only an annual
fund of three hundred rix dollars.
This city carries on a confiderable trade, both foreign and do-
meftic. In the year 1761, its export trade employed nineteen
fhips,* of which fourteen belonged wholly to the inhabitants of
Abo. Their deftination was to Peterfburg, Frederickfhamn,
Wiburg, Reval, Riga, and Pernau ; and their cargoes confifted of
falt, tiles, iron and nails, copper, pitch, tar, pots, and deals, to the
amount of three thoufand one hundred and twenty-two rx dol-
lars thirty-two fkillings. ‘They likewife exported to Cadiz,
Genoa, Lifbon, St. Ube’s, Bourdeaux, and Amfterdam, iron, tar,
* Mr. Peuchet, in his Ditionary of Commerce under the word Abo, fays,
“that the fhips with which this town carries on its trade are without decks ;” a
very unnacountable miftake.
pitch,
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