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THROUGH FINLAND. 233
to point out the route to fuch as may come after him. Thofe
roads, however, are full of ftones, which render travelling ex-
tremely unpleafant. Our bones were feverely bruifed by the
éternal jolting of the fledge. After the embarraffments of this
foreft, we received fome compenfation for our flow and tedious
progrefs, by the agreeable fenfation we experienced in croffing a
lake, where we feemed to fly with all the velocity our horfes were
capable of, and without being in the leaft fhaken. We cou-
rageoufly braved the danger of deftruction with which the crack-
ing of the ice feemed to threaten us, and diftegarded the rents
which ran in all dire€tions under our feet. We certainly fhould
not have encountered the perils we were expofed to in crofling
this river, had we not found travelling by land a thoufand times
more fatiguing and difagreeable, both on account of the bad {tate
of the furface for our mode of travelling, and the inconvenience
of the ftones which fometimes made us ftart from the fledge, be-
fore we were aware of the obftacle that lay in our way.
It was principally between Tuokola and Gumfila that we found
travelling on the river haraffing and dangerous; and we fhould
probably have perifhed but for the affiftance of two peafants, who
undertook to ferve us as guides, and point out to us the places of
the river where the ice was ftrongeft and in beft condition to fup-
port us. Between Tuokola and Gumfila the river is extremely
rapid, and the current being ftronger in fome places than in others,
the ice in thofe parts is of a flender texture, fo that it was neceflary,
in order to enfure our fafety, to have a perfect knowledge of the
Vor. I. Hh direction
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