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324 OUTHIER’S JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO THE NORTH.
being favourable, remarkably quick: on the road we had thunder and rain; but in the
evening and the night there was fair weather : there was yet fome clouds; and | re-
marked at midnight that the fun illuminated them as far as to the horizon on the fide
of the/fouth, the fame as with us it does on the fide of the weft fome minutes before
rifing: it rofe at nearly half paft twelve in the morning.
Sunday, the fixteenth, as our lodging was in front of the bridge, we had the pleafure
of feeing all the people come from church: there was a very large congregation ; great
part of them very well dreft, and all returning with muchdecorum. During our refi-
dence at Pithea I took the plan of it; I weni therefore, while all the inhabitants were
in bed, to ftep the principal ftreets about midnight. The fituation of the town is fin-
gular enough ; it occupies entirely a {mall ifland, which has no communication with
the town but by a wooden bridge, at the end of which is a gate which fhuts. The
church is out of the town, and people go to it over the bridge. The ftreets of the town
are all ftraight: in the middle is a little fquare, regular enough, one fide of which is
made up by the town-houfe and fchool. This town is half a mile, that is to fay, a
league, from the old town, whence it is diftinguifhable. The road leading from one to
the other was our cuftomary walk : having loft our way one day in the wood, we found
a woodcock’s neft, where as yet there was only eggs.
Tuefday, the eighteenth, the veflel was in proper condition, and we now only waited
for a fair wind, to put our baggage and inftruments on board. It became fair on Wed-
nefday, the nineteenth; we immediately repaired to the {pot where the baggage was,
and off which part the veffel had proceeded to lay: we began to load, and continued
the next day, the twentieth, in order to depart immediately. We came back to the
town, whence we defigned fetting off in our coach on Friday morning early, the twenty-
firft ; but it was one of thofe grand prayer-days, on which, under great penalties, they
are obliged to attend both at fervice and fermon, that we could not obtain horfes until
they had come from church.
At length, at four o’clock in the afternoon, Meffrs. Monnier, Sommereux, and my-
felf, fet off; M. Herbelot, fhortly after the veffel grounded, embarked in another, which
went from Pithea to Stockholm. When we had pafled Aby, we came to a river called
Byka ; our coach was put into two boats joined to each other to pafs it: we then took
frefh horfes ; we went on to Frafkayer, and arrived on Saturday, the twenty-fecond, at
ten o’clock, at Sielefflat, which is a large town, where we dined. Leaving it, we pafled
a very broad river, on a wooden bridge, quite new, and very well built. We were fur-
prifed to fee fo confiderable a work entirely finifhed, having pafled by there in boats a
year before, without feeing any preparations for the conftruction of it.
Wearrived at eight o’clock at Selit, where there is a church ; and as we could not
obtain horfes until the afternoon of Sunday, the twenty-third, we went on with the fame
as far as Gremmerfmark, where we arrived at eleven o’clock: we pafled the night
there, lodging very badly, and very cold; it froze, and they were under much concern
on account of the barley. We made fo much intereft as to get horfes by ten o’clock
in the morning : we pafled by the fide of the church of Nafaftra ; afterwards through
the village of Safwar; then acrofs a river, over which was a bridge: we pafled after-
wards a heath, where there were fome Swedes encamped ; the fentinels cried out in
German, Who goes there? they came to reconnoitre, and fuffered us to go on.
About a mile beyond the camp, at eleven o’clock at night, we arrived at Uhma: we
fupped and flept in the inn, which is a very good one; and Monday morning, the
twenty-fourth, M. Sommereux and myfelf went to fee M. Guedergrip, the governor of
the province, whom we had met with feveral times at Torneo: I found there a letter
which
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