THROUGH FINLAND. 
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feventeen llreets, feven of which run from north to fouth, and 
cut the remaining ten at right angles. The llreets are all ftraight 
and not too narrow; Here is a church which in common belongs 
to the town and the parifh of Muftafaari; alfo a fchool and a laza¬ 
retto. The burying ground is upon a neat plain of confiderable 
elevation, at a quarter of a mile’s diflance from the town. Befides 
the fupreme court, which is conllituted by the burgomallers and 
counfellors, there is likewife a fubordinate court of jultice, which 
is the only one in this government. 
The trade of this town with foreign nations is rather confider¬ 
able : their chief articles of exportation are tar, pitch, rafters, 
deals which they fend to Stockholm, befides rye, butter, butchers’ 
meat chiefly beef, oil of feals, fkins, tallow, &c.: fhips for fale, which 
are generally conllruCted of fir, are alfo built here. Wafa has an 
annual market or fair, on the 24th of Auguft, but it is of little 
eonfequence.. 
Among the eflablifliments of public utility you may reckon a 
a medicine repofitory (which in England would be called a medi¬ 
cine warehoufe, or apothecary’s fhop), a medical or botanical 
garden, a cloth manufacture, a workhoufe for twilling tobacco, 
and a plantation, of feven acres of that dejlroyer of men s morals as 
well as health ,* three tan yards, a manufactory for oil from the 
feal, two dye-houfes, and a building for the boiling of pitch. 
The old harbour is difficult of accefs,. but there is a new one 
* Thus wrote King James T. of England. What abfurd opinion is there that 
has not been fanftioned by authors! 
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