Stages between Stockholm
a n d . Uleaborg, through
Finland.
Swediih I
miles. !
Arrival and
Departure.
State of the
Weather.
Thermometer
o f Celiius.
Expences in
Swediih Money.
2 April I . 3 horfes
Rix-d. Skit.
1 0
2 fledges
3 men
0 4
0 9
1 3
2 fledges
3 men
0 4
0 9
2 |- 1 15
2 fledges
3 men
0 4
o 9
2\ 1 12
0 4
0 9
2 fledges
3 men
2 Arr. llp .m .
Departed
April 2,
6 a. m.
10° 0 1 0
15° 0
2 fledges
3 men
0 4
0 9
21 1 18
0 4
0 9
2 fledges
3 men
LOCAL OBSERVATIONS.
Kiala : a houfe in the famous wood of Kyro. T h e accommodations are
pretty good : th e road is conftantly among the woods: we faw foxes.
Pajkana-kaifi. Strangers may get a lodging here. T h e road goes through
the wood, and for the laft quarter o f a mile (Swed.) over the ice of a
fmall lake.
Kuifwais. He re is fome fort o f lodging for ftrangers., T h e road conftantly
among the woods, where you now and then Will meet with a little
lake. T h e peafants do not follow the main road in thefe woods, bu t
keep the ftraighteft line poffible; and in order not to mifs their way,
th e trees th a t you ought to pafs have been marked with a hatchet.
T his is the fame mode o f travelling as is adopted in the woods o f
America.
Kojkua. N o lodging for ftrangers. W e paffed a little river, th e ice o f
which cracked under our fledges, and threatened to break every moment.
Lamb'd, pronounced LambL There is a great room with three beds for
travellers.
Re'micka. In this houfe they gave us a kind of very coarfe cheefe,
which they, roaft by the fire in the fame manner as they toaft the
cheefe in England. T h e people are of a very hofpitable difpofition.
W e proceeded for two miles over the ice, which in fome places is fo
clear and tranfparent, th at we could fee the ftones and fifties at the
bottom.