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THROUGH FINLAND. 339
threw cold water upon his head, fqueezed his hair, and with foap and
water wafhed his whole body, and rubbed him down to the girdle.
She then went to his feet, and rubbed his legs completely, parti-
cularly his ankles, and the tendon achillis. Meanwhile I was ex-
tremely attentive, and almoft ftupified at the whole operation:
but what aftonifhed me moft was the perfect apathy with which
the minifter endured this long and ftimulating procefs. When it
came to be my turn to fubmit, I found myfelf in a ftate of extreme
embarraffment—and at laft I was very glad to get on my clothes,
and walk out of the bath. At quitting it, we made a prefent of
fome halfpence to the girl: this is a very ancient cuftom, to which
every individual invariably conforms, and is obferved even by a
mafter towards his fervant, as in the prefent inftance. This
prefent has a particular appellation in the language of Finland,
namely fauna raha. |
Before we take our leave of Kemi, it is proper I fhould give
fome account of our botanical excurfions. Mr. Caftrein is an ex-
cellent botanift, though he follows this purfuit more as an amufe-
- ment than a branch of ftudy. It isto him that the fcience is in-
debted for the difcovery of a famous plant, viz. cypripedium bul-
bofum, which was firft feen by Rudbeck, in the year 1685, but
had never been found fince by any botanift, not even by the great
Linnzus, who paffed this way in July, and confequently a month
after 1 had been in flower, ‘This plant fkulks among the under-
wood and fir-trees, which furround the church of Kemi. It mo-
deftly cludes the prying eyes of the paflenger, and loves the tem-
DG 5:8 perate
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