THROUGH FINLAND. 
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The trade of the town confifts in pitch, tallow, butter, hides,, 
furs, a fmall quantity of falmon, and other fifh. The exports, 
for fome years before 1792 , taken at an average, amounted to 
fourteen thoufand four hundred and forty-four barrels of tar, ten 
thoufand hundred weight of butter, and one thoufand five hun- 
dred and feventy-one hundred weight of tallow. Their traffic 
in butcher’s meat was once confiderable, as well as that of pre- 
ferves of rubus chum^morus, a berry peculiar to Sweden. They 
alfo export wood and planks for (hipping, which are cut by a faw- 
mill on the river Pyhajoki. From abroad they import fait, of 
which the town takes care to have a conflant fupply of one thorp- 
land eight hundred tons. In the year 1794 , the town had four¬ 
teen fhips of one thoufand and fifty-five tons burthen in all: of 
thefe, four, or perhaps fix, are employed in foreign trade. They 
have a rope-work, and a cotton manufactory, fufficient for home 
confumption, and a good fifhery. 
The town pofTeffes but a very fmall territory. In the year 
17 go the number of the inhabitants was feven hundred and fixty- 
three; and of five hundred and forty who paid taxes, twenty- 
eight were merchants and thirty-two burgeffes. The number 
of the houfes in 17Q4 was one hundred and twenty-four, the 
families two hundred and twenty-five, perfons paying taxes five 
hundred and feventy-two. The duties collected at the mari¬ 
time cuftom-houfe for the year 1791 , amounted to one thoufand 
and twenty-five rix dollars thirty (killings. Clofe to the town 
there are a manufactory of pitch, and a ftorehoufe for tar: there 
is. 
