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LETTER XXIII
Tornao,
IT may be expected while I am at this place that I should say something of the Inhabitants of the neighbouring Province of Swedish Finland. Tornao, as I have informed you, stands at the very head of the Gulf of Bothnia, the eastern shore of which is inhabited by the Finlanders, subjects of the King of Sweden. The other division of Finland lies further to the east and owes allegiance to the Empress of Russia.
The Finlanders which fell under our observation at, and near, Tornao, appear to be more uncouth in their figures, less civilized in their manners, and less intelligible in their language than their neighbours, the natives of Lapland. Like these, they are low in stature, but stout and active, and from that temperance inseparable from their situation, live to very great ages. Their country
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