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STOCKHOLM TO ULEABORG. 359
LOCAL OBSERVATIONS.
Fagerne/s. This place is celebrated for good horfes, and we had indeed
very excellent ones. There is no lodging for ftrangers.
Kurofolk. Some fifhermen’s huts; no accommodation for travellers.
The peafants here, as in other parts of Finland and Sweden, fleep in
beds three flories high, one over the other.
Gamla Carleby : a fmall town in the government of Wafa. In the poft-
houfe, where you change horfes, there are fome very decent apart-
ments for travellers.
Ojanala, a peafant’s houfe, in which no paffengers can be received.
You fhould always take the precaution not to fuffer yourfelf to be
conducted over land when the paflage for fledges is bad; but defire
and even oblige your drivers to keep on the ice, though the way
fhould be rather longer.
Hignala. Lodgings for travellers. You ought not to rifk travelling in
the night under this latitude in the winter feafon, becaufe you cannot
well diftinguith the road on the ice, and may deviate from your direc-
tion.
We thould have gone by Rocola ; but being on the ice of the fea, we
muft have fetched a circuit to the right, for the fake of changing
horfes, and come back the fame way: we therefore engaged the
horfes we had to bring us ftraightways to Kalajoki.
Kalajoki. No dwelling for travellers. The road proceeds over the ice
of the fea, which is broken by the rocks underneath the furface,
when it finks or lowers itfelf fo as to touch them: this has a very
pretty appearance.
Yowala
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