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OUTHIER’S JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO THE NORTH, 269
in the fécond coach to take their reft in their turn. Almoft always woods of fir; we
pafled through a hamlet, croffed a torrent, and at laft a great river, over a bridge, at the
end of which is the polt-houfé of Niuronda, two miles and three quarters from Gnarp.
Mefirs. de Cederftrom and Meldecreutz joined us here.
At fix in the morning of Tuefday, the twelfth, after going one mile and a half, we
arrived at the little town of Sund{wald, very prettily fituated at the bottom of a {mall
gulph, where veflels come up: the church and the town-houle have a very neat appear-
ance, as Well as the houfes themfelves. We paffed a great river a quarter of a mile
before we came to it, and a fmall one on leaving it, which empties itfelf into the gulph.
We afked for bread, and were told theré was none. ‘There is no poft-houfe in this
town, wherefore we went on with the fame horfes, one mile farther, to Dinguelftadt,
two miles and a half from Gnarp. ;
We left Dinguelftadt at eight o’clock, and, through roads mountainous and full of
finuofities, came to the great river of Lindal: we paffed in a bark the two branches
which it forms on different fides of an ifland; and after landing we changed horfes at
Fiahl, one mile and a quarter from Dinguelftadt.
At noon we quitted Fiahl, going through woods of birch, and at three o’clock ar-
rived at Marck, one mile and feven-eighths diftant : we dined there, and left it at feven
o’clock. We met now with an unequal country, but in which were fine valleys, inter-
mixed with lakes: mid-way pafled a river, and got to Skoog by ten o’clock, one mile
and three quarters from Marck.
_ We now were near Hernofand, and pafled by the country-houfe of its bifhop. M. de
Maupertuis afterwards informed us that he went to fleep there, and received at his hands
every mark of politenefs. M.de Cedeftrom, his relation, told us as well he would have
been much gratified to have feen us. :
We left Skoog, on the thirteenth, at eleven o’clock at night, and towards midnight
arrived at the borders of a gulph, into which the great river Angeran empties itfelf.
It blew frefh; the boatmen advifed us not to go over with the coach: they joined two
boats together, faftening them well; they placed the two hind-wheels of the coach far-
theft from the fhore, making them run on planks, and afterwards the two fore ones in
the other, and got over. by dint of rowing, being ill-favoured by the wind, which had
much to work uponin the coach: we were obliged te ufe the fame means in the paflage
of feveral other rivers on the road. , After the coach was landed, they returned to pals
us over; this manceuvre coft us nearly three hours.
On landing we met with horfes ready for us on the banks at Veyda, and at four in
the morning we reached Skullerftadt, three quarters of a mile from Veyda, and one mile
and five-eighths from Skoog. We flept at Skullerftadt, and did not leave it till eleven
o’clock : the roads were very crooked, and over high mountains, the vallies of which
are moftly lakes, or arms of the fea. _We went two miles and a half farther, and ar-
rived at four in the afternoon at Saltzoker ; thence over mountains to Effya, five-eighths
of a mile from it: we found there flat bread, in the form of cakes, which was good,
as well as the milk and butter; for a long time we had not fared fo well. The country
{till full of mountains, but the belt we had feen fince we left Upfal. The valleys end
_in lakes, or gulphs ; but there are a many fields fowed with barley and rye. We quitted
Effya at fix o’clock, and, on account of the mountains, did not arrive at Dokftat, al-
though no more than a mile diftant, until nine. We could have embarked our coach
in boats at Saltzoker, and pafled by water to Dokftat ; it was propofed to us, but would
have given us too much trouble.
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