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THROUGH FINLAND. 304
a finall houfe adjoining, I faw a kind of hand-mill to grind corn
for the family : it confifted of two round {tones, in the uppermoft
of which was inferted a ftick, whofe other extremity paffed
through a hole in a triangular board, which was faftened to the
corner of the room.
Proceeding fix miles beyond Kirkomeki, we arrived at Niemis
which word fignifies, in the language of the country, a promon-
tory: here we changed horfes for the laft time. It is a groupe
of {mall wooden houfes, where we faw fome little boats. on the
river Armesjokr: the place isa {mall dependency of Tornea.
Farther on you have a view of a mountain named Luppio, which
is compofed of rocks that are feemingly falling into ruins.
From Niemis to Upper Tornea is eight miles: this is the laft
ftage of the journey. The road is mountainous, and in fome
places fo full of fand, as to render it extremely fatiguing to the
horfes. _We reached Upper Tornea on the eighteenth of June in
the afternoon. The plants which we found in flower, in the
courfe of this route, were the following :
Menyanthes trifoliata , Cornus fuecica
Trientalis Europea Leontodon taraxacum
Betulainana, * Rubus chamoemorus
Andromeda polifolia Rubus arcticus.
Vou. I. 3A CHAPTER
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