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218 TRAVELS
either into the ditch or againft a tree, and fometimes twifts the
horfe, and throws him down along with it. We were often
obliged to get out of the fledge, but our boots being too flippery
to fupport us on an inclined plane of {mooth ice, we were reduced
to the neceflity of fitting down, and of fliding gently to the bot-
tom of the defcent. :
In the whole way from Abo to Yervenkyle the traveller finds
nothing fufficiently interefting to merit a place in his journal.
The country is in a great meafure flat, and it is not till he is about
a mile from Yervenkyle that it begins to become fomewhat moun-
tainous, without however prefenting him with any remarkable
profpect.
The houfes of the peafants are well built, and the ftranger finds
every where lodging and beds; and he may be tolerably accom-
modated, if he have the precaution to carry fome conveniences
along with him. You are received with great hofpitality ; the
peafant furnifhes you with whatever he has got to eat, though,
in general, he can only offer you frefh and curdled milk, falt
herrings, and perhaps, as before-mentioned, a little falt meat.
In comparifon with thofe who travel among them they are poor,
but in relation to themfelves they are rich, fince they are fup-
plied with every thing that conftitutes, in their opinion, good
living. If they have more money than they have immediate ufe
for, they lay it up for fome unforefeen emergency, or convert it
into a vafe, or fome other domeftic utenfil. You muft not be
furprifed in Finland, if ina fmall wooden houfe, where you can
get
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