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THROUGH FINLAND. 223
foaming below with a vaft noife, were in a ftate of fuch violent
motion as to {pout water now and then on the top of the bridge ;
a circuimftance which rendered its furface fo exceedingly flippery,
that the peafants were obliged to pafs it creeping on their hands
and knees.
We repeatedly vifited this picturefque cafcade, and took feveral
drawings of it in different points of view. We always performed
this walk with guns in our hands, in cafe we fhould fall in with
a hare, a fox, or a wolf, whofe numerous tracks we met with in
the woods. We fought them a whole day in the heart of the
foreft with a hope, and not without fome little fear, of finding
thefe ferocious animals; but were continually and perhaps happily
difappointed. We difcovered every where marks of their ravages,
fuch as the remains of animal carcafes, but never got fight of
either. The probable caufe of our being difappointed in not. find-
ing game arofe from the neceflity we were under to fearch without
a dog. Not one was to be found in the village nor in the whole
neighbourhood of Yervenkyle, which, according to the report of
our landlord, was owing to the wolves fetting upon them at the
very doors, and even in the houtfes themfelves of the inhabitants.
Being unable therefore to find either hare, fox, or wolf, we were
forced to take up with {fmaller game, and divert ourfelves by kill-
ing thofe little birds which in the North always fly during winter
near the cataract, and which I never faw in Italy. This fpecies
ig named by Linnezeus turdus cinctus,
Some peafants who dwelt at a mill on the contrary fide of the
bridge,
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