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242 - TRAVELS
fituated a mile from the former, which is more convenient. In
the year 1794 fix fhips were employed for foreign and three for
home trade. ae
In the year 1790, W afa confifted of three hundred and eighty-
four houfes and houfe-fteads, four hundred and fifty-five families,
eleven hundred and fifty-five citizens paying taxes, of between
fifteen and fixty years of age. The number of males was in all
two thoufand one hundred and feventy-fix. The town is bound
to equip nine failors for the royal navy. The revenue of the ma-
ritime cuftom-houfe for the year 1784 was eighteen hundred
and fifteen rix dollars.
In the vicinity of the town are fprings of mincral water, called
Guftavus’s wells, after the prefent prince royal: they were firft
difcovered in the year 1750. Since the royal tribunal was eftab-
lifhed here, a new high road has been made by order of his ma-
jefty, which goes through the parifhes of Happo, Alajauoi, Saure-
javoi, and from Haukas to Cuopio, a town of Savolax. Having
paid our compliments to the prefident and governor, we had pre-
fently an invitation to dine with them. They made it their bufi-
nefs to invite the moft interefting fociety of Wafa to meet us:
they treated us magnificently, and in the fame ftyle of ceremony
that we had experienced at Stockholm; for here, as in other
countries, the towns of the provinces always look up to, and ftudy
to imitate the manners of the capital.
It feemed to me like a dream to meet here a lady fo amiable,
fo well informed, and fo polifhedin her manners as we found the
wife
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