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THROUGH FINLAND. 344
throwing down all the bridges, and overflowing a vaft tract of the
furrounding country. Spring-time, which in other countries is
the feafon that brings along with it every thing grateful and of
_ good prefage, is here the forerunner of misfortune, and frequently
of the moft terrible difafters. The {now, as it melts on the tops
of the mountains, produces enormous {wells in the rivers, which,
breaking up the ice, hurry along with them vatt mafles, heaped
one upon another. Thefe tear down, fweep before them, and
lay wafte every thing they meet in their courfe which may tend
to oppofe their violence.
In going to Tornea you are obliged to crofs in a ferry-boat, and
leave the horfes on the left bank of the river, which at this place
is extremely broad and majeftic. At a fmall diftance from the
{pot where we entered the boat, is the church of Lower Tornea,
from which there is a fine view of the town, and where we ufed
fometimes to amufe ourfelves by contemplating the fun at mid-
night. There is a very good inn at Tornea, and we found the hoft
extremely civil and obliging.
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