| Show HISTORIC BORGO A curious old town in that aas a history borgo is an old town about forty miles from and certainly the most of the small towns of finland by the side of the old towa with its quaint irregular houses and its tortuous streets r there are square quarters with houses painted with yellow achre ochre and reminding one by their shape of cigar boxes situated at the mouth of a little river and prettily set in a frame of hills and ancient fortifications cov crad venerable pine trees borgo i presents a most curious aspect the ald while cathedral the strange houses of the old town oc herand orange the sheds and warehouse s baill buill alou the river their dounda eions in the water itself and everywhere in the intervals between these building the fresh greenery of the gardens such arc some of the features Jea tures which malce this little town so characteristic ahe is a large square monument built of blocks of granite whitewashed and with pointed gables the steeple is separate from the church at a distance af about fifty paces jt is the type of almost all our churches ch of the catholic era that is to say before gustavus vasa r it this church of borgo that alexander I 1 in I 1 SOO opened the fir niah diet by which he promised to pre berve and to respect forever the religion the laws and the can of the country thus according to his own words raising to a place amongst nations albert in harpers magazine |
