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THROUGH) FINLAND. 253
‘The, trade of the town. confifts in pitch, tallow, butter, hides,.
furs, a {mall quantity of falmon, and other fith, The exports,
for {ome years before 1792, taken at an average, amounted to
fourteen thoufand four hundred and forty-four barrels of tar, ten
thoufand hundred weight of butter, and one. thoufand five hun-
dred-and. feventy-one hundred weight of tallow. . Their traffic
in butcher’s meat was once confiderable, as well as that, of pre-.
ferves of rnbus chumzmorus, a berry peculiar to Sweden. | They
alfo export wood and planks for fhipping, which are cut by,a faw-
mill.on the river Pyhajoki.. From abroad they import. falt, of
which, the,town takes care to have a conftant fupply of one thou;
fand eight hundred tons.- In the year 1794, the town. had four-
teen fhips of one thoufand and fifty-five tons burthen in.all: of
thefe, four, or perhaps fix, are employed in foreign trade. ; They
have a rope-work, and a cotton manufactory, fufficient for home
confumption, and a good fifhery. buibceal uot tle
The town poffeffes but a very fmall territory. In the year
1790 the number of the inhabitants was feven hundred and fixty-
three; and of five hundred and forty who paid taxes, twenty-
eight were merchants and thirty-two. burgeffes. The number
of the houfes. in 1794 was one hundred. and twenty-four, the
families two hundred and twenty-five, perfons paying taxes five -
hundred and feventy-two. The duties collected at the mari-
time cultom-houfe, for the year 1791, amounted to one thoufand
and twenty-five rix dollars thirty killings... Clofe, to the town
there are a manufactory of pitch, and a ftorehoufe for tar: there
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