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424. TRAVELS
CHAPTER XXIV.
Departure from Uleaborg——Difficulty of travelling to the North Cape;
through Lapland in Summer—Plan adopted by the Author and his
Friends—Preparations for the Journey : an Acceffion of two fellow
Fravellers—Affecting Farewell—Jouiney purfued—De/fcription of
a Finlandifh Dance—Some Specimens of Mufic—Amufement at
Hutta—Arrival at Kemi.
HE time was now approaching when we were to take leave’
of our friends,. and profecute our intended travels to the
North Cape. This journey appeared to every body at Uleaborg:
chimerical, and a project that would be found impraéticable on:
experiment. Every perfon of our acquaintance pictured Lapland:
to us in the moft frightful colours: they affured us from authori-
ties true, or fuppofed to be true, that in fummer it was abfolutely-
impoffible to find a road, or to pafs from one place to another.
Our friends confoled themfelves, in the profpec of our departure,
with the idea, that we fhould foon ourfelves be convinced of the
impracticability of our plan, and being difcouraged by the firft
obftacles we fhould meet with, they fhould foon have the plea-
fure of feeing us again on our return to Uleaborg.
In the courfe of our ftay here we had ftudied to obtain infor-
mation
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