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THROUGH FINLAND. 241
feventeen ftreets, feven of which run from north to fouth, and
cut the remaining ten at right angles. The ftreets are all ftraight
and not too narrow. Here isa church which in common belongs
to the town and the parifh of Muftafaari; alfo a {chool and a laza~
retto. The burying ground is upon a neat plain of confiderable
elevation, at a quarter of a mile’s diftance from the town. Befides
the fupreme court, which is conftituted by the burgomafters and
counfellors, there is likewife a fubordinate court of juftice, which
is the only one in this government.
The trade of this town with foreign nations is rather confider-
able: their chief articles of exportation are tar, pitch, rafters,
deals which they fend to Stockholm, befides. rye, butter, butchers’
meat chiefly beef, oil of feals, fkins, tallow, &c.: fhips for fale, which
are generally conftructed of fir, are alfo built here. Wafa has an
annual market or fair, on the 24th of Auguft, but. it is of little
confequence..
Among the eftablifhments of public utility you may reckon a
a medicine repofitory (which in England would be called a. medi-
eine warehoufe, or apothecary’s fhop), a medical or botanical
garden, a cloth manufature, a workhoufe for twifting tobacco,
and a plantation. of feven.acres of that deffroyer of men’s morals as
well ax health,* three tan yards, a manufactory for oil from the
feal, two dye-houfes, and a building for the boiling of pitch.
The old harbour is difficult of accefs,. but there isa new one
* Thus wrote: King James I. of England: What abfurd opinion is there that
has not been fanétioned by authors/
Vou. I, Yea fituated
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