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FORTIA’S TRAVELS IN SWEDEN. 569
Its fituation between a mountain and the fea is very difagreeable. Thus far you meet
with accommodations at the different ftages to fleep, either good or bad. Between Sef-
fizu and Pyttis you leave Sweden and enter the Ruffian empire: here you have to
fhow your paffport. The whole of Finland is ftony, and the roads in either a great or
fmaller degree fatiguing.
In Ruffia you reckon by werfts; the horfes are paid for at the rate of 2 kopees per
werlt; the poftillion makes no claim; the charge of the ftage is paid for beforehand. —
It is abfolutely requifite you fhould take copper money with you, or expect to lofe upon
ducats, which are the only coin you can take into Ruffia, at leaft the only one known
by the poft-matters.
_ Fredericfhamm is a fmall town, has nothing worth notice. Wyburg is rather a pretty
town, the capital of the government; it is tolerably well fortified, and the garrifon is
confiderable; it is a place of great trade; your paflports are examined both on entering
the town and leaving it. As faras Wyburg the route is through much foreft and rocky
country ; the country is extremely wretched, and widely different from Swedifh Fin-
land; from the very borders we met with nothing but the moft diftrefsful indications
of mifery.
The tour laft ftages are deteftable, the roads entirely ruined ; you are obliged either
to go a foot pace, or run imminent danger. You can fleep no where but at Belloftrow ;
at all the other ftages you find abfolutely nothing : we recommend the inquifitive to
take a view of fome of the dwellings in order themfelves to form a judgment of the
actual condition of the country. Fj
The laft ftage you pay double. There is no cuftom-houfe at the entrance of Pe-
terfburg.
Vol. VI. 4D TRAVELS
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