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& THROUGH FINLAND. 237
CHAPTER XVI.
The Journey continued—Brightnefs and Transparency of the Ice, and
the probable Reafon of it—Stop at Sillanpe—Arrival at Wafa—
Account of this Town: its Situation, Trade, and Inhabitants—
- The Tribunal for the. Government of the North of Finland, at
Wafa—The Prefident and Governor—Anecdotes of Linncus.
EFORE we reached Wafa, we were ftill not without fome
~~ apprehenfion from travelling on the rivers of Finland. Hitherto
the ice being covered with {now of a dirty furface, and far from
fhewing the fmalleft tranfparency, made us for the moft part for-
‘get that we went upon water; we were now to learn what fort of
fenfation we fhould experience in pafling over a river, where the
ice, tranfparent as cryftal, difcovered under our feet the whole
depth of the element below, infomuch that we could fee even the
{malleft fifhes. In the firft moment of furprize, having had no
previous notice of the change, we fancied ourfelves inevitably loft,
and that we fhould be fwallowed up, and perifh in the awful gulf.
Even the horfe himfelf was ftartled at the novelty of his fituation ;
he fuddenly ftopped fhort, and feemed unwilling to go forward. But
the impulfe he had acquired in travelling pufhed him forward in
{pite of himfelf, and he flid, or rather f{kated upon his four jointlefs
legs,
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