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THROUGH FINLAND. 267
CHAPTER XIX. .
Stay at Uleaborg protracted longer than was intended; Reafons af-
Signed for it—Interefting Individuals mentioned—Curious Expert-
ments with Animal Magnetifn: Reflections on the extraordinary
Phenomena produced by it—Advantages attending a Refidence in
Small Country Towns—Ho/fpitality at Uleaborg—Spirit of Society
at that Place—Singular Mode of fhewing Regard and Friendfhip
jor a Stranger.
T was our firft intention to remain at Uleaborg only five days,
and by availing ourfelves, whilft the feafon permitted, of the
ufe of the fledge, to pufh our travels with the utmoft expedition
as far northward as poflible, fo as to return in fummer, that we
might thus have furveyed the country in both feafons, and wit-
nefled the interefting procefs and ftrange fpectacle of an almoft
momentary tranfition from winter to fummer. We might have
beheld the whole furface of the ground covered with ice and
fnow ; have travelled with the rein-deer and roving Laplander;
and in the fpace of two wecks have obferved the ice melt, the
{now vanifh, the Laplander retire into his mountains, leaves and
flowers {pring up, and the whole fyftem of vegetation difplay it-
felf in all its beauty. This picture, which we relifhed fo highly
M m2 _ by
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