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STOCKHOLM TO ULEABORG. 343
LOCAL OBSERVATIONS,
Grifichann is the poft-houfe (a brick building) where the paffengers
that travel this way to go to Finland, either in winter or fummer,
generally flop: the road lies acrofs the fea. In fummer there are
always poft-boats ready to convey the travellers; and in winter, when
the ice is ftrong enough to bear, fledges and horfes are here furnithed.
It is to be obferved, that at this place you are obliged to take double
the number of horfes to what you had before: there is a telegraph
at Griflehamn.
Signilfkar is a rock, or fmall ifland, the fir of the kind you meet in
crofling the fea. There is a telegraph, which corretponds with the
one at Griflehamn.
Ekero is another of that clufter of iflands, known under the name of
Aland. This ifland is of confiderable extent; it confifts of fixty
hemman, let to different families. Hemman means an eftate of land
belonging to the crown, and farmed by the peafants: there is a
church, fifty windmills, a great quantity of wood and corn.
Frebbenby confifts of only two houfes; one deftined for travellers, and
the other inhabited by peafants.
Enkarly; a few houfes without any accommodations for paflengers.
The country is hilly, ‘and confequently the road uneven.
Haraldfby, a {mall village, fituated on an eminence, and confpicuous by
fome windmills. The way lies clofe by the cafile of Cafielholmen,
famous for having been the prifon of Eric XIV. It is built upon a
rock, at the extremity of a neck of land that juts out into the fea,
Skorpas
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