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560 FORTIA’S TRAVELS IN SWEDEN.
provided your luggage be not very confiderable ; in cafe, however, of appearing loaded,
the examination is fometimes rigorous; the road refembles that of the preceding
{tage.
The diftances hence are meafured by werfts; the charge is two kopees per horfe per
werlt ; the werfts are marked on pofts, deferibing the diftance paffed and that to go;
you pay before hand, and need give nothing to the pottillion. Provided you choofe to
be thus liberal, give what you meart to the man himfelf, and not the under officer of
the poft-houfe in reckoning with him, for in fuch cafe the poftillion would get nothing.
A piece of 5 kopees perfectly contents him. To Switola, in the middle of the ftage, is
a wretched wooden bridge, and two others towards the end. ‘Yo Krederic/fhamm 3; at
the fourth werft is a bridge over the Kymen, where is a fine cafcade, which is worth
{topping to fee. The moft favourable profpect of it is from the road itfelf, about two
or three hundred paces beyond the bridge. Thetwo laft {tages are extremely fatiguing;
the road crooked, almoft continually over rocks, withmany afcents and defcents ; woods
and blocks of granite on each fide the road *. After leaving Suttola we pafled through
two regiments encamped. The Prince of Naffau inhabited a houfe nearly upon the
high road. Part of the fleet was at Svenkfund, for the protection of the works begun
there.
Frederifhamm, a {mall unpaved town, regular enough, but thinly peopled ; its forti-
fications towards-the land are very infignificant, nor has it any thing whatever deferving
notice: you will lodge at the Swedifh widows, but muft bargain before hand, or expect
to be handfomely fleeced. Your paflport will be required as well on entering as leaving
the town; and here you may begin to fhew, in lieu of the Swedifh paflport, that with
which you are provided from the Ruffian minifter in Stockholm.
From Fredericfhamm to Wyburg is one hundred and ten werfts.—To Kokena, rocky
and woody.—To Peterlax, Hurpolava, Wilajok, Serviok, roads of the fame defcription,
except on the laft ftage, which is fandy and bad.—To Wyburg, bad enough : in order
to avoid a number of gulphs, you are obliged to make a long circuit to reach Wyburg :
a little before you arrive thither, you pafs two arms of the fea, over two long and ex-
ceedingly tirefome bridges; they are made of trunks of trees, both round and fquare,
ranged alongfide of each other without any nicety: very near the city you crofs a
third bridge, afterwards an exceedingly long jetty, which terminates the third en,
clofure. ;
Wybourg, the capital of the government which comprehends all that part of Finland
belonging to Ruflia, was burnt in 1793. ‘There were then a number of brick houfes
whitened over: trade is fomewhat brifk, a number of deals being fhipped hence; its
fortifications are ina good ftate; by afking permiflion of the governor, you may be per-
mitted to vifit them with an officer: there is here con{tantly avery refpectable garrifon.
We were fubject to much formality before we reached our inn: our paflport was en-
quired for as well on our entrance as our departure.
From Wyburg to Peterfburg is one hundred and forty werfts—To Kamarie few af-
cents, but only rocks, and the roads made by trees laid acrofs.—To Rofvaja much fand :
the road appears not to be finifhed ; almoft all the wer{ts on this road have been taken
away.—TLo Pampola a very {tony road ; at five werlts is a village, after pafling through
* We noticed that the blocks of granite in Finland were much lefs hard and more friable than thofe in
the interior of Sweden; ariling, according to feveral naturalitls, from there being two different defcriptions
of granite. May it not likewife proceed from the fhores of the Baltic having been left by the water at a
later period than the interior, whence the blocks have neceflarily become more hard and more perfeély
formed? An opinion adopted by a number of Swedifh authors, who affirm that the Baltic diminifhes in
height forty-five inches nearly in every century.
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