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356 TRAVELS
horfes all the way. The road is naturally good, and kept im ex-
cellent repair: but at Upper Tornea every thing terminates ; you
inftantly obferve that you are about to enter an uncultivated
country, and to take leave of the civilized world. No more
horfes, no road, no lodging for paffengers, except a fort of caravan-
fary, which the merchants of Tornea have provided for their ac-
commodation in travelling in winter to the different fairs, which
are held at places extremely remote. Without anticipating our
detail, we will premife a fketch of the country and objects that
fell under our notice on the route to Ofver, or Upper Tornea.
The environs of Tornea are extremely naked of wood: it was.
in great abundance formerly ; but at prefent none remains, except
in one diftrict, where it 1s preferved by a proprietor for the pur-
pofe of harbouring game.
We changed horfes at Kukko, which lies at the diftance of feven
miles from Tornea. Kukko, in the language of Finland, fignifes
cock, and it is probably the name for a particular fpecies of that
bird, whofe crowing has fome analogy to the note of the cuckoo. ©
The line of the road runs pretty clefe to the river Tornea. After
Kukko we paffed very near to the villa of Mr. Richard, the mer-
chant of Tornea, who is fond of a country life, and devoted to
agricultural purfuits. He has laid out a garden, which he culti-
vates with great care, and in which he has made repeated trials
to raife various exotic fruits and plants. His gardener told us he
had attempted to rear apple trees, which had taken root and fuc-
ceeded for three years, but then died. The only plant in flower.
when
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