THROUGH FINLAND. 
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Before our arrival at Wafa we Rill endured much bodily fatigue 
from the rough motion of the fledge; and we were obliged to 
make a paufe at a fmall place called Sillanpe, which ferved as a 
Rage or poft-houfe. Here we found a public houfe kept by a 
widow, and fo overjoyed were we to meet again with the corm 
forts of life, that we remained with her two whole days. 
Wafa is the firffc town you meet with upon entering OAro- 
bothnia. It is built entirely of wood, and the houfes for the 
greater part only confifl of one Rory. Wafa is a conflderable Ra^- 
pelRad, fituated under the 64 th degree of north latitude.. It is 
one hundred and flxty-two miles from Stockholm, forty-one from 
Abo, fourteen from Gamla Carleby, and eight and a half from 
Ny Carleby. The town was founded, with a parifli church, 
Muflafaari, by Charles IX. It was endowed with certain privi¬ 
leges in ]6]1, and named after the illuRrious houfe of Wafa, 
being at the fame time honoured with the permiffion of bearing 
the arms of that family. The late king of Sweden, Guflavus III. 
eflablilhed at Wafa, in the year 1775 , a tribunal, or fupreme 
council for the north of Finland, the inAitution of which was ce¬ 
lebrated with great pomp at Stockholm, on the 26th of June, 
1776. In its dependance are three governments, viz. Wafa, Ule- 
aborg, and Knopia,* two jurifdidions, and feven, territorial judges. 
The 
* Before this inftitution the inhabitants of thofe diftrifts were under the necef- 
fity of carrying their difputes to Abo. After informing myfelf as well as I could 
refpedling the adminillration of this tribunal, I found that there area third more 
Jaw-fuits now than there ufed to be when the people were obliged to carry them 
to 
