FORTIa’s TRAVELS IN SWEDEN.

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provided your luggage be not very confiderable ; in cafe, however, of appearing loaded,the examination is fometimes rigorous; the road refembles that of the precedingftage.

The diftances hence are meafured by werfts; the charge is two kopees per horfe perweril; the werfts are marked on pofts, defcribing the diftance pafl'ed and that to go.;you pay before hand, and need give nothing to the poftiilion. Provided you choofe tobe thus liberal, give what you mean to the man himfelf, and not the under officer otthe poft-houfe in reckoning with him, for in fuch cafe the poftiilion would get nothing.A piece of 5 kopees perfedtly contents him. To Suttola , in the middle of the ftage, isa wretched wooden bridge, and two others towards the end. To Fredericjhamm; atthe fourth werft is a bridge over the Kymen, where is a fine cafcade, which is worthflopping to fee. The molt favourable profpecl of it is from the road itfelf, about twoor three hundred paces beyond the bridge. The two laft ftages are extremely fatiguing;the road crooked, almoft continually over rocks, with many afcentsand defcents; woodsand blocks of granite on each fide the road *. After leaving Suttola we pafl'ed throughtwo regiments encamped. The Prince of Nafi'au inhabited a houfe nearly upon thehigh road. Part of the fleet was at Svenkfund, for the protection of the works begunthere.

Frederifha?mi, a final! unpaved town, regular enough, but thinly peopled; its forti-fications towards the land are very infignificant, nor has it any thing whatever defervingnotice : you will lodge at the Swedilh widows, but muft bargain before hand, or expedtto be handfomely fleeced. Your paffport will be required as well on entering as leavingthe town; and here you may begin to fhew, in lieu of the Swedilh paffport, that withwhich you are provided from the Ruffian minifter in Stockholm .

From Fredericlhamm to Wyburg is one hundred and ten werfts.—To Kokena , rockyand 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 orderto 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 athird 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 Ruffia, was burnt in 1793. There were then a number of brick houfeswhitened over: trade is fomewhat brifk, a number of deals being Ihipped hence; itsfortifications are in a good ftate; by afking permiflion of the governor, you may be per-mitted to vifit them with an officer; there is here conftantly a very refpectable garrifon.We were fubjeft to much formality before we reached our inn: our paffport 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 Rofvoja much fand:the road appears not to be finifhed ; almoft all the werfts on this road have been takenaway.—To Pampola a very ftony road ; at five werfts is a village, after paffing through

* We noticed that the blocks of granite in Finland were much lefs hard and more friable than thofe inthe interior of Sweden ; arifmg, according to feveral naturalifts, from there being two different defcriptionsof granite. May it not likewife proceed from the Chores of the Baltic having been left by the water at alater period than the interior, whence the blocks have neceffarily become more hard and more perfectlyformed ? An opinion adopted by a number of SwediCh authors, who affirm that the Baltic diminiffies inheight forty-fiv.e inches nearly in every century.

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