THROUGH FINLAND. 
the Jupiter of the Viler ait, the fecretary of nature, an ocean of 
fcience, a moving mountain of erudition, and other appellations 
to the fame effect. Linnaeus, far from feeling difpleafure at fuch 
exceffive and ridiculous compliments, interrupted the panegyrift 
at each phrafe, embracing him, and calling him his deareft friend. 
The governor invited us to dine with him the following day. 
At table, talking of oeconomy, it was agreed by the company that 
Wafa was the town of all others where one may live on the 
cheapeft terms. A woodcock, which at Stockholm would cofl 
thirty-two Swedifh {killings, or fixteen pence Englifh, is bought at 
Wafa for four. The price of a w T ater-quail at Stockholm, twelve 
{killings, here is only two {killings the pair. Fire wood coils almoil 
nothing, except the trouble of cutting it. The clergyman ob- 
ferved, that for three rix dollars he kept a fire in his apartment 
every day without intermiffion during eight months of the year. 
The prefident is the firfl perfbn in Wafa, though, as his falarv 
is paid in paper, or rix-geld, he has about a fehoufand rix dollars 
lefs than the governor, whofe appointment confifls in provifions 
or natural produce, by which he regularly clears an annual in¬ 
come of two thoufand four hundred rix dollars; a fum more than 
fufficient to enable him to live in this place like a great lord. 
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