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THROUGH FINLAND. 425
mation refpecting this journey from every perfon we could hear
of who had vifited Lapland ; we wrote toa merchant at Tornea ;
we procured intelligence from fome clerical miflionaries, who had
been in Lapland ; but there was not one individual who could
give us the fmalleft advice, as to the manner or even the poffibi-
lity of travelling in that country in fummer. They all had been
there in winter only, and had travelled in fledges drawn by rein-
deer : the miffionaries, in like manner, refide there only in win-
ter, and return for the fummer to villages which haye an open
communication with fome town. ‘Phere was not an individual
whe: could furnifh us with a diftinét idea, or any fatisfactory in-
formation on the fubject. All feemed, to a man, to be firmly of
epinion that the journey was not to be accomplifhed. They knew
perfely well how we might get to Upper Torned, to Kengis, to
Kollare ; but no mortal could tell us how it was practicable to
penetrate the length of Muonionifca. They were pretty accurately
acquainted with the road that leads to the church of Jukasjervi,
and a lake which forms the fource of the river Tornea; but we
chofe to avoid this route, which different travellers had gone be-:
fore us, and which is already fufficiently known. We were re-
folved to follow the foot{teps of no one, but to trace out a line
of road for ourfelves, or not to engage in it at all. It was our
plan to keep as much as poffible in a line of the meridian to Tor-
nea, and proceed towards the North Cape in the ftraighteft di-
rection poffible. In order to gain our object, it would be necef-
fary to leave the river Tornea, to follow the courfe of the Muo-
nlo,
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