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OUTHIER’S JOURNAL OF A YOYAGE TO P= NonTm, 267
of rarities, and a tolerably good library. I noticed a quadrant of Hevelius; it is of
wood, divided into fpaces of ten minutes, four feet and a half radius, with fights.
Friday, the eighth, we went to the archbifhop‘s, but he was then holding a confiftery,
and we could not fee him’: M. de Maupertuis returned there in the afternoon, or the
next morning, and held a long converfation with him.
If we had {et off together we fhould frequently have been delayed at the ftages, where
we fhould fearcely have been able to meet with fufficient horfes for our two coaches ;
we therefore took the precaution or fending a fervant before on horfeback, who ordered
the horfes to be got ready for the firft coach, and this gave information at the different
{tages where we changed that another would follow in feven or eight hours, in order
that the horfes might be got ready, and we arrived the quicker at Torneo.
Mefirs. Camus, Herbelot, and myfelf, began our journey at five in the evening in the
firft coach. M. Meldecreutz, a Swede, who was fond of geometry, and {poke French,
fhould have made the fourth, and-promifed to join us at Upfal; he however did not
come: he arrived not till fome days after in a chaife with a young Swedifh nobleman,
fon of M. de Cederftrom, fecretary of ftate: this young nobleman having a defire to
fee the country which we were going to, determined to take the opportunity of our
expedition.
We found about half a mile from Upfal, a little before our entrance into the wood,
a church and fome ruins, which we were told were Old Upfal. We changed horfes at
Hoyftadt, one mile and a quarter from Upfal; at Laby, one mile and a quarter from
Hoyftadt; at Yffetel, two miles beyond Laby; the road all the way excellent, but
through a country made up of marfhes and woods.
We arrived at Yffetel a little before midnight; we found fome eggs, which we made
them boil hard for us, and they formed our fupper. We left it on Saturday, the ninth,
at two o’clock in the morning, went through the woods as far as Mehede, a diftance of
two miles and a half, and always through woods and low grounds, yet covered with
water, from the thawing of the {now, to the great town of Elffkarby, one mile and a half
beyond Mehede. To arrive at this town it was neceflary we fhould pafs over a great
river, which has a handfome cataract, where there are iron-founderies, in a boat. We
left it at eleven o’clock, by a road through woods of fir, between lakes and rocks; hay-
ing paffed a river by the way, over a bridge, we arrived at three in the afternoon at
Gefile, which is two miles and a half from Elffkarby, and eighteen from Stockholm.
Geffle is a pretty large town ; through it a river pafles, over which is a wooden bridge:
veffels come up the river into the town. In the middle of the town are feen the remains
of a ftone caftle, which feemed to have been fomewhat grand. Some of the houfes of
the town are of ftone, the remainder of wood, without turf on the roof. The enclo-
fure of the town is the fame as at Stockholm; and at Upfal is a pallifado, with very
neat wooden gates; it enclofes feveral large gardens: by the remains of the church
which was burnt, it appears to have been of fize. ort
We found a good inn at Geflle. After dinner we went to the governor’s, who was
abfent : we begged his fecretary to forward orders for our obtaining poft-horfes, and fet
off at fix in the evening, before the coach of M. de Maupertuis arrived.
~ After halfa league of open country, we again met with woods’and rocks, as far as
Troye, a mile and a half diftant, where finding frefh horfes, we went on, through a
marfhy and woody country, to Hamrung, one mile and three-quarters farther: we arrived
there at eleven o’clock at night. We foon after again fet off; we pafied through very
thick woods for the fpace of fix French leagues, in the midft of which are fome houfes,
on the banks of the river Liufna, which we crofied in a boat : farther on we crofled
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