is, befides, another manufa&ory o f pitch at Pyhajoki. The inhabitants
are provided with milk from the pariihes o f Pyhajoki
and Kulajoki.
W e arrrived at Uleaborg on the feventh o f April, where we
found, clofe by the town-houfe, a tolerable inn, which is the only
ope in the place. A t night, after we were gone to bed, we were
furprifed by an incident which appeared to us very extraordinary
in a country of fo high a latitude. I have long been in the dangerous
habit, before falling afleep, to read a book for half an hour.
T h a t evening I happened to be reading Ariofto, when I thought I
heard three taps on the window o f our chamber, which was on the
ground floor. I paid not the fmalleft attention to it the firft
nor even the fecond time. When it was repeated the third time,
I began to fufpedt it had fome meaning; but as I read Ariofto, I
was difpofed to doubt whether it was not. an effedt o f my imagination,
heated perhaps by that o f the poet. T he fourth time,
however, I had fcarce the ihadow o f a doubt that it was fome-
body who tapped at the window ; but ftill, to guard againft illu-
fton, I awaked my companion, who flept in another bed in the
fame room; and after-acquainting him with my impreflion,
prayed him to liften, and obferve whether he could not hear a
•noife at the window. W e then heard the three traps repeated,
accompanied with a voice, which uttered fomethmg indiftindtly.
I rofe, put on my pelice, and taking up my piftols went out of
the chamber to fee what it might be. But how great was my
furprife !....It was a fine,girl who wanted a corner o f a bed. I
immediately
immediately uncocked, and laid afide the piftols, for fear o f doing
mifchief—.What happened afterwards ?....For the folution o f fuch
difficult problems, Ariofto generally refers to another canto; but
for the folution o f this, let the reader conje&ure what might have
happened to himfelf in fimilar circumftances.