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556 FORTIA’S TRAVELS IN SWEDEN.
with wooden cuts ;- only two copies are in exiftence ; the other is in the library at Up-
fal, and is not complete.. Dialogus creaturarum moralizatus. ‘The hiftory of the library
has been written by Henry Gabriel Porthun, profeflor of Rhetoric.
Cuap. XXIII.—From Abo to Peterfburg by Helfingfors, Frederichhamm, and Wyburg.
FROM Abo to Pikie, commons, heaths, fome hills, and fome meadows, but of no
great extent. To Vi/ta the fame country, a number of windmills. To Handele, an
interfected country, fandy roads, afcents and defcents frequent, woods. ‘The poft-houfe
is on the left, on an eminence out of the high road. To Hake/aro no change of fcene,
many hills, the defcent. of fome of which bad. Ha//a, the firft mile fands, woods, and
rocks, afcents and defcents in-very quick fucceflion, the reft of the road not fo bad, pre-
fents fome valleys and meadows. ‘l’o Swandby, (on this ftage you pay for a quarter of
a mile more than the real diftance,) fands, rocks, and hills; a quantity of foreft both
before and after you pafs a bridge: in the middle of the {tage you meet with two roads
which are the fame; houfes .extremely rare. To Biorfby, fands, rocks, woods, the
road hilly: at about three quarters of a mile on this ftage you leave to the right a-road
leading toa newly conftructed fort, and take that through the wood. ‘To Miollbolftadt
the fame fort of road, many profpects of the fea, and of a feat on the right belonging to
Mr. Aminoff: the road by the fide of a river on which are feveral hammers for iron ;
the banks of it are well peopled, at length you crofs it, and after pafling the bridge leave
the road to Ekenes on the right. ‘To Kockis, fands and almoft uninterrupted forefts ;
this {lage is exceedingly rugged: the poft-houfe ‘is on the right out of the high road.
To Boljtadt the road better, the country well peopled, and cultivated; the poft-houfe
away from the road. To Quis, a far lefs agreeable ftage, frequently ftony, woody, and
full of hillocks. To Bombeule, hills, fands, the country well populated and in good
cultivation. To Hel/ingfors, ands and mountains. | Provided the traveller be not in-
clined to go to Helfingfors, which is to the right out of the great road, he will proceed
from Bombceule to Hackfbceule. At almoft all the poft houfes from Abo there are
accommodations for fleeping, either good or bad: at Helfingfors there are a number of
inns, the beft is kept by a German.
Helfingfors. Notwithftanding this be the refidence of the Commander in chief wf
Finland *, it is a town moft horridly paved, and contains no more than a thoufand in-
habitants; we may with perfect truth affirm that we faw as many cows in the ftreets as
paflengers; but for the fortrefs of Sweabourg it is totally unworthy of being vifited:: this
fortrefs is more than half a mile from the fhore, and is deferving the minute attention of
the curious traveller. For this purpofe an order from the minitter or the Governor of
Finland is indifpenfibly neceffary.
On one fide of the town is a magazine for the field artillery, which is to confift of
one hundred and twenty pieces of cannon, many of which are now cafting, and eight
thoufand mufquets. There are other magazines in Finland. ‘The officer who conducted
us, informed us that there were nearly four hundred pieces of cannon employed in the
laft war, which, when to one acquainted with the roads and the country, muft appear
xtraordinary indeed. Twenty-four horfes are required for a twenty-four-pounder, fix
for a ix-pounder, and for cannon of other dimenfions in proportion.
* The houfe occupied in 1791 by General Klin{porre, is the very fame in which the lodge of Free Ma-
fons was held, of which we {poke in our account of the confpiracy againit Guftavus I1I.; at that period it
was inhabited by General Poffe,
7 ~ Sweabourg,
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