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THROUGH FINLAND. 225
is found to carry to a confiderable diftance, and to require but a
very {mall charge.
Before taking leave of Yervenkyle we wifhed to be made ac-
quainted with the oeconomy of our hoft, and to afk him fome
queftions refpecting the expences of his family, and the price of
provifions in this part of Finland. Wood cofts but the trouble of
cutting it down and tranfporting it. ‘The wages of day labourers
are high, being from twelve to fixteen fkillings. Our honeft pea-
fant had the appearance of being very much at his eafe, What
pleafure it is to fee a happy peafantry! He had fix cows, which
had produced him as many calves, and eight goats. The {mall
twigs of the birch tree, which the goats feed on in winter, give a
delicious odour to the place in which they are kept. He had be-
fides eight lambs and three horfes. The cows afford him a pail of |
milk each day. <A cow 3s fold for five or fix rix dollars, a calf for
two, a goat for one, a roebuck only cofts fixteen {killings. Wheat
does not thrive here, rye is five and a half rix dollars the barrel.
We afked him if he had ever eaten bread made of the bark of a
tree, or if he had ever been obliged to feed his cows with their
own dung, mixed and feafoned with a little falt, meal and ftraw;
but he had been fortunate enough not to have experienced any of
thefe hardfhips. The Darlicarlians, however, have been reduced
to fuch extremities on different occafions.
The farmftead of this good and happy man confifted a the
houfe, which he himfelf occupied with his family. To the right
of this there was a {mall building, exprefsly allotted to ftrangers,
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