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only occurs in the most out-of-the-way places. The 

 posting being cheap, it will not increase the expense 

 much to pay the drivers well, and 50 penni (5d.) per 

 stage will be thought very handsome. 



On arrival at a station, after an average stage of 13 

 versts, the tourist enters his name in the dag-bob, and 

 immediately finds that everything is ready for a fresh 

 start. The stations are clean and beds always pro- 

 curable, with eggs, rye bread, milk, and cream in 

 abundance. The corn brandy and beer of the country 

 are found everywhere and considered good. 



"When I state that Finnish waters swarm (through- 

 out the length and breadth of the Grand Duchy) with 

 pike, it will be understood that trout-fishing is only 

 obtainable in places ; but those places are particularly 

 good ones for trout. Nothing in the shape of camp- 

 ing appliances is needful, as houses exist everywhere 

 without exception where the most enterprising angler 

 is likely to find his way, excepting in the extreme 

 North, where the mosquitoes are as conspicuous by 

 their presence as they are in the remaining and 

 greater portion of Finland by their absence. This 

 absence of the culex is a boon which can only be 

 appreciated by experiencing the opposite. More espe- 

 cially is to be recommended the steamboat service on 

 the marvellous chains of inland lakes. 



The ramifications of the different watersheds in 

 such a flat country as Finland, and a country at the 

 same time with so many small undulations on its 

 surface, are somewhat confusing, and even the 



