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342 ~ TRAVELS
CHAPTER XXVI.
Manpertuis’s Defcription of Torne —Account of this Town, by the
Author—The Climate—View of the Sun at Midnight—Profpect
Jrom the Church of Lower Tornea—Harbour of Tornea—State
of the Bothnian Gulf in this Vicinity—Trade of the Town—
Some Travellers mentioned that have vifited Tor A ance iptions
preferved i in the Church at Jukayervi.
ROM tthe time that Maupertuis, and the other French aca-
demicians, travelled into this country to meafure a degree,
as a mean of afcertaining the actual figure of the earth, Torned
emerged from its obfcurity, and is now well known to all the
world. The firft advance it made towards fame was not in its
favour. Maupertuis’s defcription of it, which he read in the aca-
demy at Paris, infpired every breaft with tender commiferation for
the poor inhabitants, who had the misfortune to be born in fo
milerable’a town, “ The town of Tornea,” he fays, “ on our
« arrival there on the 30th of December, prefented an afpect truly
« frightful. The low houfes, from bottom to top, were funk in
“the fnow, which hindered the light from entering in by the
«¢ windows, while the fnow always falling, or ready to fall, ob-
« ftruéted the rays of the fun, which was feldom vifible even for
“a few
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