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■fituated a mile from the former, which is more convenient. In 
the year 1 79 4 fix fhips w 7 ere employed for foreign and three for 
home trade. 
In the year 17 go, Wafa confifted of three hundred and eighty- 
four houfes and houfe-fteads, four hundred and fifty-five families, 
eleven hundred and fifty-five citizens paying taxes, of between 
fifteen and fixty years of age. The number of males was in all 
two thoufand one hundred and feventyTix. The town is bound 
to equip nine failors for the royal navy. The revenue of the ma¬ 
ritime euflom-houfe for the year 1/84 was eighteen hundred 
and fifteen rix dollars. 
In the vicinity of the town are fprings of mineral water, called 
Guftavus’s wells, after the prefent prince royal: they were firft 
difeovered in the year 1750. Since the royal tribunal was eflab- 
lifhed here, a new high road has been made by order of his ma- 
jefty, which goes through the parifhes of Happo, Alajauoi, Saure- 
javoi, and from Haukas to Cuopio, a town of Savolax. Having 
paid our compliments to the prefident and governor, we had pre- 
fently an invitation to dine with them. They made it their bufi- 
nefs to invite the mod interefting fociety of Wafa to meet us: 
they treated us magnificently, and in the fame ftyle of ceremony 
that we had experienced at Stockholm ; for here, as in- other 
countries, the towns of the provinces alw r ays look up to, and ftudy 
to imitate the manners of the capital. 
It feemed to me like a dream to meet here a lady fo amiable, 
fo well informed, and fo polifhed in her manners as we found the 
wife 
