Excerpt from Hand-Book for Northern Europe, Vol. 2 of 2: Including Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia; Finland and Russia One great advantage in Finland is the not being obliged to send on a courier. Post horses, supplied by the neighbouring farmers, are always in readiness at the stations; and so far from there being any delay, you have frequently half a dozen Fins quarrelling for the honour of earning your kopeks, and displaying their respective ponies to the best advantage, in order to procure your selection in their favour; and, generally speaking, by the time you have written your name, 850. In the dag-bole, and paid the boy who takes back the horses, you will find everything In readiness for a fresh start. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.