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It brought to my mind the student*, who 

 in going by sen from Stockhobii to Abo 

 had experienced so severely the terrors of 

 the deep, that he rather chose to walk 

 back to Stockholm through East Bothnia, 

 Tornea, West Bothnia, &c., than trust 

 himself again to so cruel and treacherous 

 a deity as Neptune. 



Towards evening I reached Sundswall, 

 a town situated in a small spot between 

 two high hills. On one side is the sea, 

 into which a river discharges itself at this 

 place. 



About sunset I came to Finstad, but 

 continued my route the same evening to 

 Fjähl, where I was obliged to pass a river 

 by two separate ferries, the stream being 

 divided by an island. 



* This was Tillands, afterwards Professor at Abo, 

 who hence assumed this surname, expressive of his 

 attachment to land, and Linnaeus named in honour 

 of him a plant which cannot bear wet. See his 

 Ord. Nat. 291. 



