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time the train was to wait, and answered every inquiry 

 politely, but was not otherwise sociable. It may have been 

 a voluntary civility on his part it was at least no un- 

 pleasant incident. He turned off on a branch road before 

 reaching Tavastehus, giving particular advice before he 

 left as to the remainder of the way. 



' We were received by the Governor with the utmost 

 politeness ; his beautiful and accomplished daughter, who 

 spoke the English language with great purity, being called 

 as an interpreter, and we were furnished with his carriage and 

 coachman for the remainder of the journey. He sent with 

 these to our hotel a letter in English giving the distances 

 between stages where horses would be changed, and the 

 sums that the peasants would expect for their teams. It 

 was the merest pittance about a quarter of a dollar for 

 two horses and a man for six or seven miles. As the 

 carriage came in at a stopping-place, which was generally 

 a group of low, flat log houses and barns, arranged around 

 a court or yard, one or two young men would start off for 

 the pastures to bring up a fresh team. The carriage, 

 harness, and driver, went through, while the peasant would 

 ride back to the place where he had started. As the 

 latter took his scat by the driver we noticed that he 

 generally had his bridle thrown over one shoulder, with 

 several large annular cakes of coarse, unleavened, black 

 rye bread strung upon it. These, at the end of his route, 

 he would divide with his horses as their lunch, giving a 

 mouthful to one and then the other, occasionally keeping 

 one for his own eating. At each station the traveller was 

 requested to enter in a book opposite his name the time 

 of his arrival, his destination, and any complaints he might 

 have to make as to the service. The driver had instruc- 

 tions to go through to destination, and to await our 

 pleasure for return. 



4 This journey of thirty miles led over an excellent road, 

 through a cold and to some extent a swampy country, but 

 otherwise well cultivated, the crops being barley, peas, 

 oats, potatoes, turnips, and flax, with meadows and pas- 



