Stages between Uleaborg
and tb e N o rth Cape.
K o r p i c u l a ..................................
Kirkomeki............... ,
Niemis.......................
Mattorenge, or Ofver
To rn ea.. . y .........
Kaulimpe. ................
T o l u f i s , o r J u o x e n g e
Tortula.
Swediih
Miles.
Arrival and
Departure.
State ot the
Weather.
•Thermometer
of Celfius.
J u n e 1 7 -
A r r . about
midnight.
June ] 8.
Departed
early.
A r r i v e d
a b o u t n o o n .
J u n e 2 0 .
D e p a r t e d
a b o u t n o o n .
J u n e 2 1 .
A r r . 1 0 a . m ,
Expences in
Swediih Money.
3 horfes
2 carts
3 men
3 horfes
2 carts
3 men
3 horfes
2 carts
3 men
3 horfes
2 carts
3 men®
2 boats
and 4 men
2 boats
and 4 men
2 boats
and 4 men
ix-d. Skil.
0 33
0 33
0 4
0 Q
0 18
0 4
0 9
0 30
O 4
0 9
0 22
O 28
0 22
* Here is an end o f roads and horlcs, and you mutt henceforth travel in boats. 4
reckon that a gentleman, with his fervant and an interpreter, which is neceilary in this
country, cannot do with lefs than two boats, efpecially on account o f the baggage and
provifions, which take up a good deal o f room. T h e following calculation o f expences
is therefore made, upon the fuppoiition that two boats and four rowers are employed.
L O C A L O B SE RV A T IO N S .
Korpicula, fignifies a- place covered with wood. No dwelling for Grangers
: there are but two houfes on the right bank o f the river, which
at this place forms a round bafon or little lake. You have a view of
the waterfall called Matkakojki.
Kirkomeki means, in the language of the country, a church on a hill.
There is a church and pretty good lodgings.
Niemis fignifies a promontory. There is a houfe on the left bank of the
little river Armasjoki, and a fmall wooden bridge over the river. The
road continues hilly.
Mattorenge is the name of the village, and Ofver Tornea, or Upper Tor-
nea, that of the church, the parifh, and the redtor’s houfe, fituated
on the right bank of the river Tornea. Oppofite, on the left bank,
is the mountain Avafaxa, W e proceeded in a boat on the river
Tornea.
Kaulimpe. Some peafant’s houfes on the left bank of the river. They
here fifh for falmon ; and there are people to attend you with their
boats in your journey up the river.
Tolufis, Here you change boats. You pafs the waterfalls of Kattila
Kofki, where the French academicians have fixed the tranfit of the
polar circle.
Tortula. Here you may get a lodging, and change boats, with people
to row you. There are many waterfalls to pafs, and fix hours were
occupied in performing thefe two miles. The moil remarkable waterfall
is that of Porofkefki. You have a view of mount Kittis, the laii,
which ferved for the trigonometrical operations of Maupertuis.
P e l l o