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THROUGH FINLAND. 337
ing, I communicated my impreffions to Mr. Caftrein, who was
affected by my defcription, and promifed to take care of that un-
happy family.
One of the wonders which our new friends were defirous to
fhew us in our walks about Kemi, was a bell that was intended to
be fixed in the dome of the new church. We were accompanied
thither by Mr. Caftrein’s fitters, and our expedition was confidered
as a kind of facred vifit. The great object of our curiofity turned
out to be a couple of bells of a moderate diameter: they were
loaded with a number of Finlandifh infcriptions. The place
where they were, was but at a little diftance from the minifter’s
houfe. Moft of our party, ourfelves excepted, were perfeetly ac-
quainted with the language of Finland; and the ladies undertook
to read the infcriptions, and tranflate them into Swedifh. The
prettieft girl in the company immediately read aloud, “ Catzo,”’
&c. &c. Scarcely had fhe pronounced the word, when we began
to laugh like fools, and the ladies, ignorant of the caufe of our
mirth, thought that cafzo muft be a very laughable word, and
therefore never ceafed repeating it in the whole courfe of our walk,
at table, in converfation, and on all occafions. Let the reader
judge what fort of effect this word, fo often repeated by the com-
pany, muft have produced on the ears of two Italians. Cafzo, in
Finlandifh, fignifies here 7s.
Mr. Caftrein, who wifhed to inftruct me in all the Finlandifh
cuftoms, afked me if I had ever bathed according to the ufage of
the country ; and being anfwered in the negative, faid, we fhould
Vou. I. Xx then
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