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CONTENTS. xxiii
(CHAPTER XXVIII.
State of the Road from Tornea to Upper Tornea—The People that ool
inhabit this Trad of Country—Ofver Tornea, or Upper Tornea
—The fuperintendent Minifter of that Parifh—Hofpitality of the
Clergy, and their Attention to Travellers—Vifit to Mount Ava-
faxa: the Account which Maupertuis has given of this: Mountain,
very accurate—Remains of Signals upon the Mountain—Infects and.
Plants found on, or near Mount Avafaxa. Flora Avafaxenfis—
Meat kept very long in the cold Seafon—Departure from Upper
Tornea: Lofs of one fellow Traveller who returned home, 362
CHAPTER XXIX.
The Travellers henceforth proceed by Water—Strong Currents of the
Rivers, occafioned by Catarats—Pa/fs by a Salmon Fifhery : man-
ner of eating Salmon raw—Difficulty of navigating those Rivers—
Stages on this Journey—Pafs the Aric Polar Circle, near the
Cataraéts of Kattila Kofki—A fhort Paffage by Land—Pello and
Mount Kittis remarkable for Maupertuis’s Aftronomical Obferva-
tions—Mr. Swamberg’s Remarks on the Labours of Maupertuis ;
from which it appears, that his Obfervations are not to be depended
on—Method of obtaining the Eggs of the Mergus Merganfor—
From Kardis to Kengis—Arrival at Kengis, and Hofpitality fhewn
by anInfpector of the Mines— A Stone with very ancient Inferip-
tions taken Notice of by Maupertuis—Plants and Infedts.
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