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The Minifter of the Parijh o f Kem i— Environs o f this Town— The
River near Kemi: danger of navigating it— The Church, a mag-
nificent Building— *Striking Contraf.it makes with the miferable
Huts around it— Walk froth Kemi to a Jhort Dijlahce to look at
fome Church Bells— Experiment tried by the Author o f a Fin-
landijh Vapour-Bath— Some intelligence relative to Botany and
Entomology— Departure from Kemi, and arrival at Tome a 333
CHAPTER XXVI.
Maupertuis's Defcription o f Tome a— Account o f this Town, by the
Author— The Climate— View o f the Sun at Midnight— Profpedt
from the Church o f Lower Tornea— Harbour of Tornea— State
o f the Bothnian Gulf in this Vicinity— Trade o f the Town—
Some Travellers mentioned that have vijited Tornea— Infcriptions
preferved in the Church at Jukasjervi — — 342
CHAPTER XXVII.
Refidence at Tornea—* Some Individuals o f this Place mentioned— A
new Addition to the travelling Party: Enumeration o f the fcien-
iific Perfons that now compcfed it— Departure from Tornea—-Some
topographical Remarks on the Environs— Face of the Country be-;
tween Tornea arid Upper Tornea— Different Stages that are paffed
— Salmon Fijh ery— Particular Method o f catching thefe Fijh— An
.old Man ferving for a Guide— A Bathing-place, after the Fin-
landijh Fajhion—Hand-mills for grinding Corn— A few Plants
mentioned, — — — ■ 353
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CHAP TER XXVIII.
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State o f the Road from Tornea to Upper Tornea— Thè People that
inhabit this tradì of Country— Ofver Tornea, or Upper Tornea
— ThtSuperintendent Minijler o f that Parijh— HoJpitality o f the
Clergy, and their Attention to Travellers— Vifit to Mount Ava-
f aXa : the Account which Maupertuis has given o f this:Mountain,
very accurate— Rèmains o f Signals upon thè Mountain^Infers and.
Plants found on, or near Mount Avafaxa. Flora Ayafaxenjis—
Meat kept very long in the cold Seafon— Departure from Upper>
Tornea : Lofs of one fellow Traveller who returned home, 3Ó2
CHAPTER XXIX.
The Travellers henceforth proceed by Water— Strong; Currents o f the
Rivers, occajioned by Catara&s— Pafs by a Salmon Fijhery : man*
ner of eating Salmon raw— Difficulty o f navigating thoje Rivers—
Stages on this Journey— Pafs the Ardite Polar Circle, near the
Cataradis o f Kattila Kojki— A Jhort Pajfage by Land— Pello and
Mount Kittis remarkable fo r Maupertuis s AJlronomical Obferva-
tions— Mr. Swamberg’s Remarks on the Labours o f Maupertuis ;
from which it appears, that his Obfervations are not to be depended
. on— Method o f obtaining the Eggs of the Mergus Merganfor—
From Kardis to Kengis— Arrival atKengis, and HofpitalityJhewn
by anlnfpedlor o f the Mines— A Stone with very ancient Infcriptions
taken Hot ice o f by Maupertuis— Plants and Infedts. 371