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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 hi (lory of the libraryhas been written by Henry Gabriel Porthun, profeffor of Rhetoric .
Chap. XXIII.— From Abo to Peterjburg by Helfingfors , Fredericfhamm, and Wyburg •
FROM Abo to Pikie , commons, heaths, fome hills, and fome meadows, but of nogreat extent. To Vifta the fame country, a number of windmills. To Handelm,interfered country, fandy roads, afcents and defcents frequent, woods. The poft-houfeis on the left,.on an eminence, out of the high road. To Hakeflaro no change of fcene,many hills, the defcent of fome of which bad. Hajla , the firlt mile fands, woods, androcks, afcents and defcents in very quick fucceffion, the reft of the road not fo bad, pre-fents fome valleys and meadows. To Swandby, (on this ftage you pay for a quarter ofa mile more than the real diftance,) fands, rocks, and hills; a quantity of foreft bothbefore and after you pafs a bridge : in the middle of the ftage you meet with two roadswhich are the fame; houfes extremely rare. To Biorfby, fands, rocks, woods, theroad hilly : at about three quarters of a mile on this ftage you leave to the right a roadleading to a newly conftrudted fort, and take that through the wood. To Miollbolftadtthe fame fort of road, many profpects of the fea, and of a feat on the right belonging toMr. 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 palling the bridge leavethe road to Ekences on the right. To Kockis, fands and almoft uninterrupted forefts ;this ftage is exceedingly rugged: the poft-houfe is on the right out of the high road-To Bolftadt the road better, the country well peopled, and cultivated j the poft-houfeaway from the road. To Outs , a far lefs agreeable ftage, frequently ftony, woody, andfull of hillocks. To Bombtzule, hills, fands, the country well populated and in goodcultivation. To Helfingfors , fands 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 proceedfrom Bombceule to Hackfboeule. At almoft all the poll houfes from Abo there areaccommodations for fleeping, either good or bad : at Helfingfors there are a number 01inns, the belt is kept by a German.
Helfingfors. Notwithftanding this be the refidence of the Commander in chief ftFinland *, it is a town mod horridly paved, and contains no more than a thoufand in-habitants ; we may with perfefl; truth affirm that we faw as many cows in the ftreets aspaffengers; but for the fortrefs of Sweabourg it is totally unworthy of being vifited : thisfortrels is more than half a mile from the fhore, and is deferving the minute attention orthe curious traveller. For this purpofe an order from the minifter or the Governor orFinland is indifpenfibly necefiary.
On one fide of the town is a magazine for the field artillery, which is to confift °*one hundred and twenty pieces of cannon, many of which are now cafting, and eightthoufand mufquets. There are other magazines in Finland . The officer who conducedus, informed us that there were nearly four hundred pieces of cannon employed in thelaft war, which, when to one acquainted with the roads and the country, muft app ealextraordinary indeed. Twenty-four horfes are required for a twenty-four-pounder, f 1JCfor a fix-pounder, and for cannon of other dimenfions in proportion.
* The houfe occupied in 1791 by General Klinfporre, is the very fame in which the lodge of Free Ma-fons was held, of which we fpoke in our account of the confpiracy againft Gultavus III. ; at that period 1was inhabited by General Poffe.
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