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268 OUTHIER S JOURNAL*+GF A VOYAGE TO THE NORTH.
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another; afterwards we continued our route between lakes on the right and left, and
arrived at Skoog, a three-mile ftage, at five in the morning. ‘This night the gnats
plagued us greatly: to get quit of them, we were obliged to draw up the glaffes of the
coach, when, the weather being extre: mely hot, we were nearly fuflocated : this incon-
venience however was more tolerable than the gnats.
As it was Sunday, the tenth, we could not “obtain horfes until the people returned
from church, we confequently threw ourfelves on beds to take fome reft, having firit
eaten fome prea and cheefe which we took with us; for in general we could meet
with nothing to eat, fometimes eggs and milk, but the milk moltly four; they make it
four immediately upon milking the cows. When the good people we travelled among
had any thing to give us, they : gave it moft willingly; and it was neceflary for us to infift,
before they could be ele le to receive for it. Every thing there is cheap, and our
liberality aftonifhed them.
The poft-mafter is not obliged to keep more than one » horfe in the ftable: when
feveral are wanted, he informs the individuals of his neighbourhood, who go to the
woods to feck ches! Thefe individuals, fometimes as many as three, came, bringing
their horfes; one mounted the coach-box, another-one of the horfes, and at times they
ran on foot a great length of way. It is the rule to pay them eight fous per horle per
mile ; for the drivers, we paid them twice or three times as much as the people of the
country are wont to do, which was very trifling. If we gave them eight fous for two
or three miles, they were furprifed at our generofity ; they took us by the hand, with
an air of joy and friendfhip, exclaiming : “ For myck, tak myn her ;”’ you give too
much, thank you, Sir.
After repofing ourfelves a little, we fet off at one in the afternoon: the road {till
through woods ; fome lakes and mountains are feen. We pafled in a boat by rowing
acrofs.a river, and arrived at half paft four at Soderella, two miles from Skoog.
From Sodarella we went to Noralla, one mile oif ; between thefe places we pafled by
Soderham, famous in Sweden for its mufquets.
From Noralla we proceeded two miles and a half through woods, wherein were
marfhes, and here and there fome houfes, and arrived at Upange, at eleven o’clock,
leaving it at midnight. One Swedifh mile farther on, on the eleventh, we’entered a more
pleafing country, but more mountainous: there are lakes, and a river which works a
confiderable forge, near to which is a handfome houfe, clofe to the poft-houfe of Ek-
funda, one mile and a half diftant from Upange.
- We left Ekfunda at three o’clock in the morning, and at a mile diftance paffled clofe
to Hudiwikfwald, without entering it; it is a town of a neat appearance; it had two
fteeples, and a town-houfe with a kind of dome; the town is fituated at the bottom of
the gulph.
_ A little farther, that is to fay, one mile and three quarters from Ekfunda, we took frefh
horfes at the poft-houfe of Sand, and again others, three quarters of a mile farther, at
«Weilta: thefe two latter places are fituated ina fine country, of valleys abounding with
batley and rye.
From Weifta we went on to Hermongar, one mile and three quarters off, always among
-woods. For the firft time on the road we faw rein-deer, which thepherds were guard-
ing, and which appeared very tame. _ Leaving Hermongar we pafled a river, all the way
jwas lined with woods of birch, for one mile and a half, to Gnarp, which we reached
at two o’clock in the afternoon.
We waited there for M. de Maupertuis, who arrived at nine in the evening. While
waiting for him we dined and flept, and departed at ten o’clock, leaving our companions
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