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THROUGH FINLAND. 446
the month of June; but the place moft particularly calculated
for enjoying this fpectacle, is the church of Lower Tornea, fituated
on the ifle Bidrk6n, about a mile from the town. Befides feeing
the fun entirely above the horizon at this point of view, the eye
commands the environs of Tornea, the two mountains Bakamo
and Korpekila, and the town itfelf, which is built upon the little
ifland, or rather peninfula, of Swenfar. The houfes, and the
church with its fteeple, being reflected from the fmooth ee
of the river, afford a very pleafing pidture.
Merchant fhips, that fail up the gulf of Bothnia, may come
almoft clofe to the town; and indeed, anciently, Tornea was
famed for its excellent harbour. The fand, which the fea carries
into the northern parts of the gulf, feems to threaten ruin in the
courfe of time to the trade of this province: for it appears to me
certain, almoft to demonftration, that the ports of ‘Tornea, Ulea-
borg, and fome other places in the northern quarter of the gulf,
lofe in depth of water every year.
This town was founded in confequence of an order of Charles
_ IX. when he paffed through this province in the year 1602. The
articles of their export trade are butter, tallow, falted and dried
meat, falted and {moked falmon, {tromingen, which are a fpecies of
{mall herrings,* planks, and timber for building, tar, {kins of rein
‘deer, foxes, wolves, ermines, and of other animals belonging to the
country, with a vaft quantity of birds. The articles they import
-* Clupea harengus minor ; membras veterum.
Vor. I, Yy are
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