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THROUGH FINLAND. 239
Before our arrival at Wafa we {till endured much bodily fatigue
from the rough motion of the fledge; and we were obliged to
make a paufe at a {mall place called Sillanpe, which ferved as a
ftage or poft-houfe. Here we found a public houfe kept by a
widow, and fo overjoyed were we to meet again with the com-
forts of life, that we remained with her two whole days.
Wadfa is the firft town you meet with upon entering Oftro-
bothnia. It is built entirely of wood, and the houfes for the
greater part only confift of one ftory. Wafa is a confiderable fta-
pelftad, fituated under the 64th degree of north latitude. It 1s
one hundred and fixty-two miles from Stockholm, forty-one from
Abo, fourteen from Gamla Carleby, and eight and a half from
Ny Carleby. The town was founded, with a parith church,
Mutftafaari, by Charles IX. It was endowed with certain privi-
leges in 1611, and named after the illuftrious houfe of Wafa,
being at the fame time honoured with the permiffion of bearing
the arms of that family. The late king of Sweden, Guftavus III.
eftablifhed at Wafa, in the year 1775, a tribunal, or fupreme
council for the north of Finland, the inftitution of which was ce-
lebrated with great pomp at Stockholm, on the 26th of June,
1776. In its dependance are three governments, viz. Wafa, Ule-
aborg, and Knopia,* two jurifdiQions, and.feven. territorial judges.
The
* Before this inftitution the inhabitants of thofe diftriéts were under the necef-
fity of carrying their difputes to Abo. After informing myfelf as well as I could
refpecting the adminiftration of this tribunal, I found that there are a third more
~faw-fuits now than there ufed-to be when the people were obliged to carry them
to
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