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THROUGH FINLAND. 383
* pointed by government to determine the length of an arch of
«‘ the meridian comprehended between the parallel of the North
*« Cape and that of Upftad, or, at leaft, to meafure two or three
«« degrees taken in the vicinity of the polar circle. In the mean
‘«« time the academy of fciences thought it might not be improper.
“to fend fome one of its members to Tornea, in order to inform
« himfelf as to the local circumftances of the grounds which, in
“© 1736, were chofen by the French mathematicians: as fixed
“« points, and the execution of this plan. was intrufted to me. hE
‘am now to give an account of the remarks which I was en+
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abled to. make on the fpot in regard to this fubject.
«« The country in the neighbourhood: of Tornea is extremely
** flat; towards the north,. however, and in that quarter only, at
* the diftance of eight leagues, more or lefs, there commences a
«« chain of mountains which extends all the way to Kittifvaza,
“‘ near the fmall village of Pello, from whence it becomes again
*‘ flat to the diftance of fome leagues beyond Kengis, which is
OG twelve leagues north.from Pello. Inthe whole of thofe moun-
** tains there is not one of any confiderable magnitude: Avafaxa,
‘‘ which I confider of a mean fize, rifes only to the height of fix
‘¢ hundred and fix feet above the level-of the river.. From this it
*«< follows, that no one of thofe mountains, confidered by itfelf,
‘« could produce a fenfible deviation in the plumb-line, unlefs it
<< were very near one of the points where they determined the
“amplitude of the arch of the meridian, a circumftance which
«has no place here. It remains then to know what might be the
“© effect
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