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268 TRAVELS
by anticipation, and which was fo flattering toa lively imagina-
tion, yielded to the attra@tions of Uleaborg, which promifed us
pleafures and refources of a different defcription. The polite at-
tention of Baron Silfverkielm, of Governor Carpalan, and the ac-
quaintance we made of feveral other interefting characters, and
the pleafing accident of finding here two gentlemen amateurs of
mufic, who, with my companion tnt) myfelf, could execute a
quartetto, made us forget our plan, and convert our five days ftay
into that of a couple of months. It being near the middle of,
April, the feafon was too far advanced; the ice began to wafte,
and lofe its ftrength, and the rivers became every day lefs fafe.
We fhould have run the rifk of being detained in a defert coun-
try during the period of thaw, after which we muft have allowed
at leaft a week till the earth had recovered its folidity, and the
marfhy grounds had become dry. The attraétive.fcene of the:
change of feafons we might view at Uleaborg with nearly the,
fame advantage; and as to the phenomena of winter, we had al-;
ready feen fo much of them on our journey from Stockholm, that,
our curiofity was nearly gratified. In fhort, we found our fitua- ,
tion at Uleaborg fo agreeable, that we were at no lofs to difcover.
reafons for adapting our plan to our liking, or for juttifying our.
conduct in our own eyes. ; )
I found at Uleaborg that I might carry on a courfe of ftudy ins.
troductory to the natural hiftory of Lapland. An excellent op-.
portunity for this purfuit was afforded by Mr. Julin, apothecary ,
at Uleaborg, who, befides a goad collection of objects in every ,
clafs
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