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THROUGH FINLAND. 217
CHAPTER XX.
Stay at Uleaborg continued—Cheapne/s of Living—Prejudices about
fome Articles of Eating—Bright Nights—Sport of Shooting—
Chafe of the Tetrao Urogallus—Mujical Party, and Concerts per-
formed by the Author and fome fellow Travellers—lInpreffion made
- by the Power of Mufic upon the Senfibility of thofe that heard it—
Turn of the Finlanders for Mufic and Poetry—The Runa, an An-
cient Piece of Mufic in that Country—The Harpu, a mi vf ical In-
firument—State 7 Mufic in Finland. |
UR refidence at Uleaborg will ever be pleafing to our recol-
leétion.. Removed from the world, far from the liftlef{nefs
of diffipation, out of the reach of ceremonious vifits, our time was
devoted to ftudy, to the chafe, or to the practice of mufic. Our
hoftefs was labouring from morning to night to fupply us with a
plentiful table, and to make our fituation comfortable in every
other refpect. She killed calves, pigs and oxen, exprefsly on our
account. The moft precious fpoils of the fea and rivers were
procured for us, and purchafed without regard to ceconomy ; and
the reader will probably learn with fome aftonifhment, that for this
rich and luxurious diet we paid for ourfelves (two perfons) and a
feryant,
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