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THROUGH FINLAND. 245
the Jupiter of the //ferati, the fecretary of nature, an ocean of
{cience, a moving mountain of erudition, and other appellations
to the fame effect. Linnzeus, far from feeling difpleafure at fuch
exceffive and ridiculous compliments, interrupted the panegyrift
at each phtafe, embracing him, and calling him his deareft friend.
The governor invited us to dine with him the following day.
At table, talking of oeconomy, it was agreed by the company that
Wata was the town of all others where one may live on the
cheapeft terms. A woodcock,, which at Stockholm would coft
thirty-two Swedifh fkillings, or fixteen pence Englifh, is bought at
Wafa for four. The price of a water-quail at Stockholm, twelve
fillings, here is only two {killings the pair. Fire wood cofts almoft
nothing, except the trouble of cutting it. The clergyman ob-
ferved, that for three rix dollars he kept a fire in his apartment
‘every day without intermiffion during eight months of the year.
: The prefident is the firft perfon in Wafa, though, as his falary
‘ “vis paid in paper, or rix-geld, he has about a thoufand mix dollars
lefs than the governor, whofe appointment confifts in provifions
+) or natural produce, by which he regularly clears an annual in-
~* come of two thoufand four hundred rix dollars; a fum more than
fufficient to enable him to live in this place like a great lord.
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