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328 TRAVELS
journey in a kind of waggon or cart drawn by horfes. The place —
where we crofled the mouth of the river is about two thoufand
yards broad; there are boats for the purpofe of carrying travellers
over, with accommodation for a carriage and horfes. Here the
women perform the avocation of boatmen.
We changed horfes at Sukuri, nine miles from Uleéborg: the
road was very good, though always in the midft of woods and
meadow grounds, called by the Swedes ang, or ing, from whence is
obvioufly derived the Englifh word inge. In thofe countries mea-
dows do not confift, as in other places, of open grounds without
trees, but are in general covered with brufh-wood and fhrubbery,
to which they fend their cattle to pafture on the narrow pieces
of grafs that run through thefe meadows. The great woods, in
which there are trees of enormous fize, ferve as a common paf-
ture to all the peafantry of the neighbourhood. They conftantly
hang a bell about the horfes’ necks, and let them run about in the
woods for four months, without giving themfelves the leaft trouble
concerning them. We changed horfes about four times after
leaving Sukuri, before we got to Teftile, a place confifting of two
or three wooden houfes. The above four ftages are too infigni-
ficant to merit any farther notice.
Having crofled a fmall river named Leivaniemi, in a ferry-
boat, the fcraping of a fiddie invited us to enter the hut of a pea-
fant, ftanding on the left bank, where ten or twelve country
people were dancing with all their might. Our entrance inter-
rupted the dance, and the furprife occafioned by the novelty of
our
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