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we therefore were conftantly obliged to wait for fome hours be¬ 
fore they had prepared for our departure. 
The journey from Wafa to Uleaborg is about one hundred and 
ninety Engliili miles. We purfued our courfe along the coaft, 
croffing rivers, woods, and branches of the fea, and were fomc- 
times at a confiderable diftance from the fhore. The whole of this 
vaft tradt of country is flat, and abounds in woods of firs and pines 
of a very large lize. The coafls are naked and flony, and prefent. 
rocks and iflets without the fmallefi: appearance of vegetation. 
We proceeded with the greateit diligence, but we became ex¬ 
tremely wearied by the mode of travelling we were obliged to 
adopt. Before we arrived at Gamla Carleby, we faw at fea two 
frigates, and foon after palled four or five merchant fliips which 
the ice had detained, and conftrained to pafs the winter in thofc 
regions. 
Gamla Carleby is a decent town, fituated in a fmall gulf of 
the fea, and has fome trade : it is at the diftance of one hundred 
and forty-fix Swedifli miles from Stockholm, if you go the ufual 
north road towards Tornea, fifty-five from Abo, and fourteen 
from Wafa. It was founded in the year lf)20 by Guftavus Adol¬ 
phus, who conferred upon it certain privileges, which have been 
confirmed to the inhabitants at different periods fince that time. 
The town is regularly built, with a handfome market-place, five 
ftreets in its length and five in its breadth, which are each twenty 
yards wide; and it contains two hundred and fourteen houfe- 
fleads, or lots for houfes. In the year l/.yo there were here thirty- 
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