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THROUGH FINLAND. 333
CHAPTER XXvV.
The Minifter of the Parifh of Kemi—Environs of this Town—Tihe
River near Kemi: Danger of navigating it—The Church, a mag-
nificent Building—Striking Contraft it makes with -the miferable
Huts around it—Walk from Kemi to a fhort Diftance to look at
fome Church Bells—Experiment tried by the Author of a Fin-
landifh Vapour-Bath—Some Intelligence relative to Botany and
Entomology—Departure from Kemi, and arrival at Tornea.
FE, were lodged at Kemi in the houfe of Mr. Caftrein. This
gentleman, whom I had not feen before, though I had
heard much of him at Uleaborg, was the perfon who propofed to
attend us on our northern expedition. He is a man of extreme
gentlenefs and politenefs of manners, and is poflefled of much
knowledge, though without pretenfion to it, and without being
aware of his own merit. He fpeaks Latin well, French a little,
and underftands German. Latin and German were the languages
we preferred for our converfation. Mr. Caftrein is the firft mi-
nifter of the parifh of Kemi; and he has the fuperintendence of a
country comprehending about nine hundred Englifh miles fquare.
Befides his wife and children, he has eleven brothers and fifters to
fupport: by this numerous family he is looked up to as their com-
mon
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