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FORTIA’S TRAVELS IN SWEDEN. 559
the governor’s houle, which formerly was the hofpital, he is painted extremely well in
crayons, on cloth, ‘The picture of him was taken by Mr. Sjceuftiernal, a Swedith of-
ficer, wounded at the battle of Hogland; this officer ferved in France during the Ame-
rican war. (At that time we had nearly fifty in our navy; twenty-eight of whom re-
turned to their own country, all of them remunerated with the Order of Merit.)
This fortrefs, of the greateft confequence, deferves the full attention of the traveller.
From Helfingfors to Hackfbeeule the roads are tolerably good, few mountains, fome
fands. On leaving the town, you crofs two fimall arms of the fea over bridges. At the
middle of the {tage you leave on the left the great road, quitted on the way to Helfing-
fors. This fame road leads to Tavaftehus, and into the Savolax. On the left you difcern
a large plain; frequently rocks and fome woods. At Sibbo, a tolerably handfome poft-
houfe, an abundance of wood; the country conftantly full of rocks, but pretty well
cultivated ; fome few fands. Half a mile from the poft-houfe, on the right hand, on
the road, is a {mall glafs-houfe; it employs but five hands, and has but one furnace
with five openings: the firft earth is brought from Stralfund, and cofts 12 fchillings
per nine pounds Swedifh weight: here glafles of all defcriptions are made, and plate
glafs; the largeft plates are forty-fix French inches by twenty-four to twenty-five. We
did not confider them of very good colour. his glafs-houfe is called Mariendahl :
there are three others in Finland, one at Biorneborg, one at Uleaborg, and the third
at Tavaftehus ; the laft is the moft confiderable. The poft-houfe at Sibbo is on the left
out of the road; here you may fleep.—To Voko/Ai, fome fhort but very rapid afcents,
woods, and rocks. On leaving the poft-houfe, you pafs a road on the left, which leads
to St. Michael. The poft-houfe of Vokofki is on the left, out of the road. Before
you reach it, you crofs a bridge over a {mall river.—’lo Borgo, the road hilly, the
country covered with syood. At the entrance of Borgo, you crofs the river over a
bridge. ‘This town is very badly paved, and very dirty. Here it was that, for the
firft time, we were afked for our paflport, the judge of its value an innkeeper. At
Louifa, upon our leaving the town, it was enquired for again.—To J/b/, this {tage is
fimilar to the two preceding. —To Perno, the road {till very mountainous; rocks and
foreft on either fide. Between Iorbi and Perno is a very high caufeway, in a wood,
between two precipices: in cafe of travelling this way by night, the greateft care will
be requifite—’To For/by; here is a furnace and two hammers.—To Louifa ; on’ this
{tage you difcern blocks of granite on each fide throughout the: whole diftance.
Louifa has no gates; it is a frightful town, fituated in a fmall {pace between the
mountains and the fea; its garrifon confifted of one battalion of infantry, of the regi-
ment of Stakelberg, and one company of artillery. The beft thing about the town is,
it is not paved; you confequently may traverfe it without being jolted to death: there
is a little fort a mile out at fea ; it is not of great confequence, yet {hould we have vifited
it but for the incivility of General Stakelberg, governor of Louifa, to whom we not-
withf{tanding carried a letter of recommendation : fortunately the only inftance of rude-
nefs we noticed in Sweden from perfons in office was at our leaving the kingdom.—To
Tesjeu; a fimilar ftage to the preceding one, rocks, woods, and blocks of granite.—To
Pyttis; at half a mile on this ftage is the Swedifh cuftom-houfe ; afterwards a corps de
garde, confifting of an officer and thirty men, who are relieved every four months :
here you fhew your paflport; beyond is a bridge over an arm of the Kymen, and a
hittle farther a poft on the left, which indicates you are fifty werfts from Fredericfhamm.
This is the boundary of the two ftates. A little before you come hither is a {mall paf-
fage overa rock, very fhort, it istrue, but very bad. Before the end of the ftage, at
the extremity of a bridge, isa chevaux de frize; there is the Ruffian cuftom-houfe: you
yet fhew your Swedifh paflport ; by giving a 12 fkilling note you avoid being sae
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