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TRAVELS 
either into the ditch or againfl a tree, and fometimes twifts the 
horfe, and throws him down along with it. We were often 
obliged to get out of the fledge, but our boots being too flippery 
to fupport us on an inclined plane of fmooth ice, we were reduced 
to the neceffity of fitting down, and of Hiding gently to the bot- 
f 
tom of the defcent. 
In the whole way from Abo to Yervenkyle the traveller finds 
nothing fufficiently interefting to merit a place in his journal. 
The country is in a great meafure flat, and it is not till he is about 
a mile from Yervenkyle that it begins to become fomewhat moun¬ 
tainous, without however prefenting him with any remarkable 
profped:. 
The houfes of the peafants are well built, and the flranger finds 
every where lodging and beds; and he may be tolerably accom¬ 
modated, if he have the precaution to carry fome conveniences 
along with him. You are received with great hofpitality ; the 
peafant furnifhes you with whatever he has got to eat, though, 
in general, he can only offer you frefh and curdled milk, fait 
herrings, and perhaps, as before-mentioned, a little fait meat. 
In comparifon with thofe who travel among them they are poor, 
but in relation to themfelves they are rich, fince they are fup- 
plied with every thing that conftitutes, in their opinion, good 
living. If they have more money than they have immediate ufe 
for, they lay it up for fome unforefeen emergency, or convert it 
into a vafe, or fome other domeflic utenfil. You rnuft not be 
furprifed in Finland, if in a fmall wooden houfe, where you can 
get 
