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362 TRAVELS
CHAPTER XXVIII.
State of the Road from Tornea to Upper Tornea—The People that
inhabit this Tract of Country—Ofver Tornea, or Upper Tornea
—The Superintendent Minifler of that Parifh—Ho/fpitality of the
Clergy, and their Attention to Travellers—Vifit to Mount Ava-
faxa: the Account which Maupertuis has given of this Mountain,
very accurate—Remains of Signals upon the Mountain—In/ects and
Plants found on, or near Mount Avafaxa. Flora Avafaxenfis—
Meat kept very long in the cold Seafon—Departure from Upper
Tornea : Lofs of one fellow Traveller who returned home.
HE whole of the road from Tornea to Upper Tornea is to-
lerably well formed, and kept, as I obferved before, in good
repair, and of a fufficient breadth to admit of travelling in any fort
of carriage: it has been made in the courfe of the laft thirty years.
When De la Motraye* was in this country, he was obliged to per-
form his journey in a boat. Travellers fhould contrive it fo as
never to‘have occafion for more than four horfes at a time, as you
meet. with ftages where there are no more to be found. If it
fhould fo happen that a greater number is wanted, the company
fhould divide into two parties, one going ona day before the
* See his Travels.
other,
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