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44 A TOUR THROUGH
degree ; but thou gh toa ftranger they appear ignorant, yet
they are fufficiently knowing where their own intereft is
concerned. This day we arrived at Tornao, a beautiful
well built town furrounded by a river of the fame name,
orrather the river here {wells into a fpacious. Lake,
This water produces a great quantity of Salmon. of un-
common weight and fize. This town is the place of
refidence of many capital merchants, The principal
trade here confifts of tar and furs of all kinds, brought
down from the high country by the Laplanders, which
they barter for cloth, hardware and other merchandize,
At twelve o’clock this night. we faw the Sun in fall _
beauty. The Horizon being remarkably clear, gave us _
a moft delightful view of that, to us extraordinary fight,
el ne
Sir H. G. L. has caufed an engraving to be made of
this agreeable Stene.* The Inhabitants of this climate
no doubt reap many advantages from this circumftance
during the Summer feafon ; but, alas !a long and dreary
Winter reverfes the fcene and involves them in continu.
al darknefs, Yet this is not quite fo difmal as might be
imagined. The aurora borealis appears with peculiar -
{plendor
* See the frontifpiece,
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