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‘’HROUGH FINLAND. 371
CHAPTER XXIX.
The Travellers henceforth proceed by Water—Strong Currents of the
Rivers, occafioned by Cataraéis—Pafs by a Salmon-Fifhery : man-
ner of eating Salmon raw—Difficulty of navigating thofe Rivers—
Stages on this Journey—Pafs the Arctic Polar Circle, near the
Cataracts of Kattila Kofki—A fhort Paffage by Land—Pello, and
Mount Kittis remarkable for Maupertuis’s Afironomical Obferva-
tious—Mr. Swamberg’s Remarks on the Labours of Maupertuis ;
from which it appears, that his Obfervations are not to be depended
on—Method of obtaining the Eggs of the Mergus Merganfor—
From Kardis to Kengis—Arrival at Kengis, and Hoppitality fhewn
by an Infpector of the Mines—A Stone with very ancient Infcrip-
tions taken Notice of by Maupertuis—Plants and Infects.
HE wind was quite fair, and made our boat proceed with
greater expedition. Our Finlandith boatmen, unwilling to
lofe fo favourable a moment for repofing their arms, put up a
fmall fail, which ferved to force us againft the current with a ve-
locity fufficient to carry us on at the rate of five miles an hour.
The boat was fo fmall that it could hold but four perfons in all,
and the confli@ of the wind in furmounting the refiftance of the
current, which was the effect of cataracts, produced fuch a {well
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