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344. TRAVELS
part in fummer, and efface the traces of thofe melancholy im-
preflions which his exaggerated defcription may have left on the
imagination of the reader.
The town of Tornea contains a population of fearcely fix hun-
dred fouls. The houfes are almoft entirely of a fingle ftory,
though high enough to exclude the moifture of the fnow in win-
ter. The merchants of Tornea inhabit the fouthern part of the
town, which they have been at pains to embellifh, and render as
agreeable as poffible: they have made a public walk, laid out
gardens, planted fome trees, and have ftudied by their induftry to
compenfate for the defects of nature. The obfcure days of win-
ter are counterbalanced by the almoft continual prefence of the
fun in fummer, and their 48 degrees of cold, to which the «mer-
cury falls in one feafon, are exchanged for 27 of heat, to which
it rifes in the other; for thefe are the two extremes of the ther-
mometer that have been obferved in Tornea.*
The town is almoft entirely encircled by the river Tornea,
which fpreads itfelf here in a majeftic ftream. The oppofite
banks prefent a number of cottages and farm houfes, which the
river, when quiet and undifturbed, reflects from its pellucid waters.
Northward you fee a {mall elevation, on the top of which ftand
feveral wind-mills, and lowes down to the north-eaft are fome
meadow grounds and cultivated fields. It is commonly from one
of thofe wind-mills that pravellers view the fun at midnight in
* See De la Motraye’s Travels, vol. ii. p. 288. He was in Tornea I gth May,
1718, and found all the town geftroyed by the Mufcovites.
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