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THROUGH FINLAND. 355
able, more inftructive, and at the fame time more ufeful. No-
thing was wanting to render our travelling company quite com-
pleat but one man ; this was Mr. Secretary Swamberg, whom we
faw at Tornea, and who was on his way to Lapland, being com-
miffioned by the academy of {ciences at Stockholm to afcertain
the truth of the operations of Maupertuis and his colleagues,
which were undertaken at the fame time that Condamine {failed
for South America. An aftronomer and mathematician added to
our philofophical ftaff would have made us the moft refpectable
corps that ever traverfed the mountains of Lapland. He was
our friend, and defired nothing more fincerely; but the fhip
which had on board his quadrant and other mathematical inftru-
ments of obfervation, was not arrived ; and its arrival was fo un-
certain, that we could not hazard a delay, as our time became
every hour more precious. We therefore refolvyed to depart, and
proceed with all expedition to Upper Tornea, where we propofed
to begin a more accurate courfe of obfervation.
The peninfula of Swenfar, upon which the town of Tornea is
fituated, has by fome been very improperly called an i/land. It
is joined to the continent by a tongue of land, which, indeed, is
overflowed when the river is high; but {till horfes in carts are
able to ford it, and the people frequently pafs it upon ftepping-
{tones : it cannot therefore be confidered as an ifland.
From Tornea to Upper Tornea we perceived no alteration in
the nature of the country, nor in the houfes or inhabitants of
Finland. The convenience of travelling is the fame, and you find
Lie horfes
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