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360 TRAVELS
We took leave of our aged companion, and were purfuing our
journey, when a ftorm and violent fall of rain obliged us to take
refuge in a houfe upon an eminence on the left fide of the river.
Here we had an extenfive profpect, which prefented to our view
different diftrids of the country overflowed by the river Tornea.
This houfe hada bath quite in the tafte of Finland, and we
amufed ourfelves by looking at the men and women who entered
into the bathing room. The men undreffed themfelves in the
houfe, and ran naked into the bath, which is at a diftance of fif-
teen or twenty feet from the dwelling-houfe. The women, it is
true, took off their clothes in the bathing-place itfelf, but they
threw their petticoats on the outfide, and thus were obliged to
come out, like fo many Eves, to put them on. ‘They threw their
clothes out of the room to prevent their becoming wet by the va-
pour of the bath. When they were all in the midft of the bath,
my curiofity influenced me to run in alfo to fee what was going on,
and to ftation my thermometer in a corner of the bath for the
purpofe of afcertaining the heat; but it was fo infupportable, that
being abfolutely unable to breathe, I made my way out as faft as I
went in, having had {fcarcely time to look around me. I twice
attempted to place my thermometer in the room, but I was obliged
to call my Finlandifh interpreter, who was more accuftomed to
it, and I found that the heat was 65 degrees of Celfius.
At Kirkomeki we met with what I may call an excellent lodg-
ing, and a very polite landlady, who was not of the fame clafs
with the peafantry, but a relation of a merchant in Tornea. In
a {mall
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