wandering till the approach of winter in thofe woods, or been
under the neceffity of returning to Kautokeino. At laft we fpied
the fteeple of the church of Enontekis, after travelling two days and
a half, and ajourney of near one hundred Engliih miles. W e arrived
at Enontekis the day after the departure of two Engliih travellers,
who had undertaken the fame journey as our’s ; but one of
them being taken ill with a fever, they were obliged, after remaining
for fome time at this place, to return. This gentleman
was a matter of arts, and a fello w of Jefus college, Cambridge
a man o f genius and lively parts, as well as learning : he had been
in Italy, and underftanding that an Italian was travelling to the
northward, and would perhaps return that way, he wrote down
in a kind of regitter, or book of record, kept by the worthy
clergyman, four lines from Ariofto, which were admirably well'
adapted to my fituation, and painted to the life the fatigues, of
my journey. .
Sei giorni me n’ andai mattina e fera,
Per baize e per pendui orridi e ftrani,
Dove non via, dove camin non era,
Dove ne fegno, ne veftigia umana.*
Thele two Engliih gentlemen had ftaid with the clergyman
for a week, and had been treated by the whole family with the
* Six tedious days, from morn to eve, I paft’d
O’er many a pendent cliff and horrid wafte;
At length a wild and lonely vale I found,
With hills and dreadful caves encompafs’d round.
H o o l e ’s Tranfl. o jt A r ib jto , . . ,
utmoft
utmoft kindnefs during the illnefs that detained them. They determined
to exhibit a ihow, which they conceived would draw
the Laplanders from all quarters to this place, and which feemed
calculated to make on the minds of this fimple people a great
impreffion. This was, to mount an air balloon. I know not
what effecft this objeft might produce on the natives, but I have
reafon to fuppofe th a t the concourfe was not great. At their departure
they wrote down in the regitter their names, with the
following apoftrophe :—“ Stranger, whoever thou art, th a t viliteft
“ thefe remote regions o f the North, return to thy native country,
“ and acknowledge that philanthropy is taught amidft civilized
nations, but pradlifed where theories of fcience never come.
On the oppofite page of the book I again found the name of
Mr. Vefvrotti, who had come here to let the Laplanders know,
as he had before informed the Finlanders,’ in a kind of Franco-
Latin, that he had heretofore been prefident of the parliament of
Dijon.
if L ib e rta tem quasrens ied itiom iq u e th e a trum fugiens, h ie fu it,
“ die l5 °M a r ti i , a n n o 1 7 0 2 .”
“ Carolus Richard de Vefvrotti, Dijionenfis (of Dijon) prasfes
in fuprema rationum curie Burgundiae.
The minifter of Enontekis was a man o f learning, and employed
what leifure he has from his paftoral duties, in ftatiftical
and phyfiological inveftigations. He has made large colledions in
natural hiftory of all kinds : he has alfo written a little book,
containing anfwers to .a number o f queries, made by a Sw ediih
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