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THROUGH FINLAND. 353
CHAPTER XXVIL.
Refidence at Tornea—Some Individuals of this Place mentioned—A
new Addition to the travelling Party: Enumeration of the fcien-
tific Perfons that now compofed it—Departure from Tornea—Some
topographical Remarks on the Environs—Face of the Country be-
ween Tornea and Upper Tornea—Different Stages that are paffed
—Salmon Fifhery—Particular Method of catching thefe Fifh—An
old Man ferving for a Guide—A Bathing-place, after the Fin-
landifh Fafhion—Hand-mills for grinding Corn—A few Plants
mentioned.
URING our ftay at Tornea we became acquainted with
every perfon who was at all difpofed to be fociable. The
moft confiderable merchant of the town is Mr. Richard, a man
well acquainted with the concerns of his country, and poffeffed
of a great fhare of natural good fenfe: he has been always a re-
prefentative in the national diet, and is the moft corpulent man
I ever faw in any country. The burgomafter of Tornea was ex-
tremely polite and obliging. We received civilities from the maf-
ter of the town-{chool, who {peaks French, and is a man of fome
merit: he lives, much againft his inclination, in fo remote a cor-
ner of the North: he is fettered to. the place by the ties of a wife’
Vor. I. 4 Z and
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