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THROUGH FINLAND. 249
we therefore were conftantly obliged to wait for fome hours be-
fore they had prepared for our departure.
The journey from Wafa to Uleaborg is about one hundred and
ninety Englifh miles. We purfued our courfe along the coaft,
crofling rivers, woods, and branches of the fea, and were fome-
times at a confiderable diftance from the fhore. The whole of this
vaft tract of country is flat, and abounds in woods of firs and pines
of a very large fize. The coafts are naked and ftony, and prefent
rocks and iflets without the {malleft appearance of vegetation.
We proceeded with the greateft diligence, but we became ex-
tremely wearied by the mode of travelling we were obliged to
adopt. Before we arrived at Gamla Carleby, we faw at fea two
frigates, and foon after pafled four or five merchant fhips which
the ice had detained, and conftrained to pats the winter in thofe
regions.
Gamla Carleby is a decent town, fituated in a fmall gulf of
the fea, and has fome trade: it is at the diftance of one hundred.
and forty-fix Swedifh miles from Stockholm, if you. go the ufual
north road towards Tornea, fifty-five from Abo, and fourteen
from Wafa. It was founded in the year 1620 by Guftavus Adol-
phus, who conferred upon it certain privileges, which have been
confirmed to the inhabitants at different periods fince that time.
The town is regularly built, with a handfome market-place, five
ftreets in its length and five in its breadth, which are each twenty
yards wide; and it contains two hundred and fourteen houfe-
fteads, or lots for houfes. In the year 1790 there were here thirty-
one
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