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THROUGH FINLAND. ~ 389
about four hundred Englifh miles from the laft {tage of our in-
tended progrefs in the North.
Our arrival at Kengis, however, conciliated them a little. We
met here an infpector of the mines, who received us with much
civility, and fupplied us with a plentiful board and lodging. The
object of this gentleman’s refidence in this country was to encou-
rage and promote the erection of founderies, of which he had con-
ceived the moft fanguine hopes, but which had been abandoned
and refumed at different times, according to the profpects of the
adventurers. He had invited {ettlers from the North, formed a
{pecies of colony, opened a new branch of trafic, and within thefe
few years had benefited this part of Lapland by the produce of
the mines. He lived here happily enough, having, at a confider-
able expence, been able to procure himfelf all the conveniencies
of life. He had turned fome land in the vicinity of his houfe into
meadow ground, and planted an eminence hard by with Italian
poplars, which feemed aftonifhed to find themfelves in thofe hy-
perborean regions. When Maupertuis pafled by Kengis on his way
to the heart of Lapland, in order to vifit a {tone with fome perhaps _
accidental impreffion upon it, which he chufes to denominate the
moft ancient infcription in the univerfe, there feems to have been
no infpector of founderies here, as he then lived at the houfe of a
clergyman. He calls Kengis a miferable place.* We were not
tempted to vifit this monument; the people of the country feemed
to have no tradition concerning it, nor did our curiofity lie greatly
* See Maupertuis’s Travels, from page 179 to 209.
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