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THROUGH FINLAND. 221
and as experience has often proved, a lively red as the fun goes
down prognofticates fine weather for to-morrow. This pheno-
menon had juft fixed our attention, when behold a luminous arch
rofe over the pole. This was accompanied by various other light
and fleeting arches, which fhifted from place to place every in-
ftant: they were bounded here and there by vivid flames and
torches, which iffued in rapid fucceffion from the {kies, commu-
nicating fire to the clouds in their vicinity, tinging their gilded
edges, and exhibiting a picture highly interefting to us, unaccuf-
tomed as we were to fuch appearances.
At length we had the good fortune to reach Yervenkyle, a fmall
diftrict which belongs to the univerfity of Abo, and which is let
_ to avery obliging peafant. ‘This man gave us a bed-chamber,
accommodated us as well as he could, and contrived, by his great
hofpitality, to render three days neceflary repofe very agreeable.
Some detail on this fimple and retired manfion, ftanding at a
{mall diftance from a beautiful cafcade (a fituation which afforded
us much interefting amufement, both as painters and {port{men),
will not be difagreeable to my curious readers, who may be de-
firous to know rather minutely the particulars of this part of
Finland. |
Yervenkyle is a {mall village confifting of three or four families,
and fituated upon a lake. During the winter feafon people do
not pafs through this place on their way to Wafa. Our motive
in coming here was to enjoy a little reft, as well as to have a view
of a fine cafcade of very confiderable magnitude, which is at the
diftance
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