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270 OUTHIER’S JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO THE NORTH.
At a quarter of a mile beyond Dokftat we paffed under mount Skula; above we
perceived the entrance of an apparently inacceflible cavern; we were told however that
people had entered it, and that it was very white infide. We travelled between the
fea which was eaft of us, and this mountain which is nothing but one prodigious rock,
The country continually mountainous, but the roads much better. We arrived the
fourteenth, at one o’clock in the morning at Bieftadt, two miles from Dok{ftat. We
waited here for M. de Maupertuis who came up with us together with Mefirs. Clairaut,
Le Monnier, and Ceifius at half paft five. M > de Cederftrom with M. Meldecreutz,
arrived nearly at the fame time. M.Herbelot ftaid behind to follow in M. Cederftrom’s
chaife; and M. Meldecreutz occupied his place in the coach, which carried M.
Camus and myfelf.
We fet off at fix in the morning, meeting with many mountains and woods, and after
travelling a mile arrived at the poft houfe of Hoonas. We left it at ten o’clock: many
mountains the valleys of which were fertile, frequently lakes and gulphs; we pafled
over one bya bridge and arrived at Broftadt a mile and one-cighth from Hoonas.
As all their moveable feafts were four weeks behind, they were now keeping AE
cenfion Day, and we could not obtain horfes till one in the afternoon. We were twice
obliged to have fome parts of our coach mended; and M. de Maupertuis overtook us.
After proceeding a mile we croffed a large and rapid river over abridge; the water of it
wa red, the cafe with the moft part of the rivers of this country ; we crofled a fecond
by a bridge called Hufa, a little while before we reached Ontka, two miles and three
quarters from the laft poft houfe.
We arrived at Onfka nearly all together; aman came to inform us that M. Som-
mereux and our luggage was at anchor about three leagues from us. M. de Mau-
pertuis went firlt in his coach ; one of our fervants driving him, on going down from
Onfka, (for the peafants of this country do not underftand driving), ran the coach
againit the gate, and broke the fhafts, which obliged him to return to the poft houfe to
have them mended; and as we were ftill together, M. de Maupertuis tired of the in-
conveniences of travelling by land, took horfe and joined the fhip. M. de Ceder-
{trom in our coach took the place of M. de Meldecreutz, who remained at Onfka to
wait for M. Sommereux, who M. de Maupertuis was to fend back from the veflel.
The fifteenth, we journeyed for two miles through woods of fir and birch, and by
midnight came to the poft houfe of Afwa, and one mile and half farther to that of
Lafwar. ‘hence to Sodermiola was three miles and three quarters, and two miles anda
quarter from Sodermiola to Rodbek; we paffed entirely through forefts of fir and birch,
over very fandy roads, with now and then a lake.
Rodbek is a fine and large village at the weft ofa great plain or meadow, inter-
fperfed with a number of {mall fheds for houfing the hay. Jn this village there is very
good water, faidto be mineral. We changed horfes at Rodbek, which is only a quar-
ter of a mile diftant from the town of Uhma; we croffed a part of this great plain, and
paffed in a boat the river of Uhma, where we arrived at half paft five in the evening ;
the fecond coach followed us very clofely.
The city of Uhma fixty-eight miles one-eighth from Stockholm, is no otherways
handfome than from its fituation on a river of the fame name, wide as the Seine at Paris,
and on which the veflels come up to the houfes. There are four ftreets in a ftraight
line running from eaft to weft, and parallel with the river: they are croffed by feveral
others north and fouth. At the eaftern extremity of the city is a great fquare, in which
is the church: on Sundays and Holidays there are numbers of men with halberts in the
city to prevent noife and diforder. And further on towards the north in every parifh in
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