STOCKHOLM TO ULEABORG. 
35 S 
LOCAL OBSERVATIONS. 
Talvizie . Here is a room for travellers. As there were no young men 
in the houfe, a young girl followed the fledge in the capacity of driver, 
This is a very common thing in Finland, that girls attend the tra¬ 
vellers, in order to take back the horfes. 
Tuokola. No lodging. There are two houfes on the left bank , of a 
river, on which we travel as far as Gumflla, and which being open in 
fome places threatened us with danger. 
Gumfila. I perceived no place where a ftranger might be lodged. As 
our journey was to continue on the fame river which would pre- 
fent the fame dangers, two guides offered themfelves to fhew us the 
fafeft route. 
Sillanipe : good accommodation for paflengers. There lived a widow in 
eafy circumftances, as it appeared, who was provided with every thing 
neceflary for travellers. Here is a fmall church. 
Tooby. An apartment for ftrangers. The country is flat. Meadows of 
confiderable extent, which having been flooded, afforded a pleafant 
paffage for our fledges over the ice. 
Wafa is the capital of the government of the fame name. There is a 
lea-port, a tribunal of juflice, a prefldent, and a governor. 
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