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OUTHIER’S JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO THE NORTH.- 3°3
Maupertuis with a M. Piping, a relation of the burgomafter. M. Helant went to his
father’s, at the fouthern extremity ofthe town. There were then only M. Sommereux
and myfelf unaccommodated. M. de Maupertuis founda fpare room at the houfe of his
hoft for M. Sommereux, with whom he had frequent bufinefs, as he ftood in the double
capacity of fecretary and treafurer. M.Herbelot, who had {topped at Torneo, and
knew the town, took me to Mad. Tornbery’s, mother-in-law of M. Rokman, the
furgeon : I there found an apartment which was very quickly put in order, and where
I lodged during the whole of my refidence at Torneo. All the others were in the
fame ftreet, along the margin of the water; I alone was in the fecond ftreet, but di–
rectly oppofite to M. de Maupertuis’ lodgings, a back door of which led into my ftreet.
Torneo is a little town, of about feventy houfes, which are all built of wood: there
are three parallel ftreets, extending from north to fouth, a little towards the turning at
the bank of a branch of the river, which is nothing but a bay during the fummer, when
the town is not entirely furrounded by water; thefe three principal ftreets are crofled
by fourteen lanes. ‘The church, which alfo is of wood, is fomewhat feparated from the
houfes, although within the palifades which furround the town, and which as well in-
clofes a fpace of ground which is cultivated, of rather confiderable extent.
In this church the prayers are read in the Swedifh language, on account of the
burghers, who {peak that language. The town and this church are fituated in an
ifland or peninfula, called Swentzlar. here is another church, built with ftone, in
another ifland, called Biorckholm, a quarter of a mile to the fouth of the town: here
the fervice is read in the Finnifh language, for the benefit of the fervants of the town
and the peafantry of the neighbourhood ; very few of whom underftand the Swedifh.
The houle of the reCtor is near the fecond church, and he is unable to go to the city,
except bya boat, or over theice. In 1737, there were befides three curates or chap-
lains, who aflifted the rector, and preached or read the fervice fometimes: they all
dwelt to the weft of the river, and came to town over the ice in winter, and in f{ummer
in boats, to avoid the greater length of road by Nara. One of thefe chaplains was di-
rector of the fchools, and came every day to town; it was M. Viguiliers, of whom I
have fpoken, and who came very frequently to fee us.
All the houfes in town as well as country have a large court, inclofed at leaft on
two fides by apartments, and on the two others by ftables and hay fheds.
In the country thefe courts are perfeétly fquare; in town they are oblong. The
fleeping-rooms have the chimney in the corner, as was the cafe in all of ours: the chim-
ney-places are no more than from two feet and a half to three feet wide, by four or
four feet and a half high. ‘Above the chimney-piece there is a’very narrow horizontal
flit, in which a plate of iron is inferted, called Spihel, in order to fhut the funnel of the
chimney entirely, or in part, at will. ,
When they makea fire, the wood is placed upright in fufficiently large quantity, and
as foon as lighted it is fpeedily reduced to charcoal; the {pihel is then fhut, and a de-
gree of heat proportionate to their wifh is communicated to the apartment... In my
room I made the thermometer of Reaumur rife to thirty-fix degrees above the freezing
point, at a time when the glaffes of my windows were covered with ice. A candle
placed in a candleftick near the window became fo foft, that it bent.and fell,
In the country, the bed-rooms and the kitchen are made pretty nearly in the
fame manner asin town ; the chimneys are made of brick and unhewn ftones, which is:
the only mafon’s work known in the country: frequently under the fame chimney-flue,.
near the fire in the kitchen, they have an oven for baking bread; and fometimes an
alembic for diftilling brandy from barley.
Beyond
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