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416 TRAVELS
CHAPTER XIV.
Departure from Abo—Difficulty of Travelling without a fufficient
Quantity of Snow—Tract of Country between Abo and Yerven-
kyle—Condition of the Peafantry : their Mode of Life, Drefs, and
domeftic Comforts—Meet with an old Minfirel—Contrivance of
putting a Sledge on Wheels—Defcription of an Aurora Borealis—
Reach Yervenkyle—Account of this Hamlet—Cataradt near Yer-
venkyle : Appearance of it in Winter—Little Birds (Turdus Cinc-
tus, Linn.) near the Cataracts in Winter—Dexterity of the Pea-
fants in Shooting—The Dwelling of a ei defcribed, and re-
prefented by a Drawing.
E quitted Abo the 20th of March to continue our travels
towards the North. In order to be free for the future
from the trouble of changing our baggage at every ftage, we had
provided ourfelves with fledges of our own. We purchafed them
at Abo, and they were of the fame defcription as thofe which the
peafantry made ufe of. The winter had been extremely fevere ;
but there had not fallen a great quantity of {now in comparifon
of former years. A March fun, and fome days of thaw, had
made it difappear entirely in many places. The fledge was often
fuddenly {topt, and the poor horfe made repeated efforts, without
effect,
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