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THROUGH VINLAND. 261
jervi and Sotkamo, at the village of Riftiarfoi, and in the parifh
of Paldamo, mill-ftones may be obtained, which confit of a very
good fand-ftone. About a couple of miles to the northward
of Uleaborg, is found on the highway the well known Rapa-
kivi, which, according to Kirwan, is an aggregate of fe/i/par and
mica; its colour is brown, or brownifh red; it moulders by ex-
pofure to the air; but that is only when the mica exceeds. Mr.
Kirwan adds, when the /e///par exceeds, it forms a durable ftone,
called in Italy granitone.*
There is no great chain of mountains nearer to Uleaborg than
the land ridge to the north-eaft, and eaft fouth-eaft ; the ground
being for the moft part low, and covered with coppices, bogs,
and moraffes ; which give to the country around the town a dull
and heavy appearance. The fituation:being damp, and not fut
ciently fheltered, the effects of night frofts are always feverely felt. »
The land ridge is a vaft chain of mountains running eaftward,
from the Haldefield in’Fornea Lapmark to Peletowaddi in Kemi,
forming a boundary between Sweden and Norway, and between
the parifhes Enara and Soetankyla ; and after ftretching farther to
the fouth-eaft, it proceeds fouthward through Kemi to Wiife-
wana, by the church of Kuufamo, to Sarwitaiffal, and hence ex-
tending to Kojuretapal, it conftitutes the boundary between the
parifhes of Paldamo, Sotkamo, and Ruffia.
* See Kirwan’s Elements of Mineralogy, vol. i. p. 345. By Linnzus it was-firft
called muria faxi ex mica fpata que, and thus characterifed: Con/tat faxo aggre-
gato ex {pate flavo et mica deliquefcente fub dio verfus meridiem. And in the later
editions it was termed, /axwm fatifeens, and defcribed in this manner: /pato/un
micaceumque falfum fatifcens.
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