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366 TRAVELS
lively, and poficfled fome degree of natural wit. One of them
played on the piano-forte, and tolerably well for a dilettante of
that climate. There is an organift here for the fervice of the
church. The organ is a pretty good one, and was the object of
the minifter’s higheft ambition, who has the honour to be clergy-
man of the moft northern church in Europe that has an organ.
We paffed two days in the fociety of this family, which, owing to
the many different avocations that fucceeded to each other with
great rapidity, appeared very fhort.
Our vifit to mount Avafaxa was the pleafanteft and moft in-
terefting of all our excurfions. It is concerning this mountain
that Maupertuis {peaks in his book on the theory of the earth.
Our walk was very fimilar to his, directed on the fame fide, and
in the fame manner as it is defcribed by that academician. Our
bodily labour was the fame; and his defcription of the view from
the top of the mountain is fo exaétly true, that I need only copy
it to exprefs my ideas. We even faw the falcons he MeHtiOnS,
and which he made fome unfuccefsful attempts. to kill. “The
accuracy of his account gave us great pleafure, and I fancied Nf
fhould gratify the reader by placing it here.
AVASAXA.
«This mountain is fituated about fifteen leagues from Tornea,
“on the margin of the river, from which the accefs to it is not
‘very eafy. The afcent lies through a foreft, reaching up nearly
‘to its middle. The foreft itfelf is interrupted by a great aggre-
‘* gate
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