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CHAPTER TIL
Excurfion from Muonionifca to Mount Pallas, and Keimio-Tunduri
—Rivers Muonio and Jeres—Pleafing Scenery about the latter—
Different Terms of the Finlanders for a Mountain, according to
its peculiar Quality—Profpect from Keimio- Tunduri—Mount Pal-
las inacceffible—Face of the Country—Snow on Mount Pallas,
and Ice on a Lake—Some Objects in Natural Hiftory collected.
DAY and a night fpent at Muonionifca ferved to recover
us from the fatigue of our late journey, and the following
morning we found ourfelves difpofed to make an excurfion into
the country. Our honeft parfon was our guide in this expedition.
He made an excellent fellow traveller, accommodated himfelf to
every thing; and what rendered him {till more agreeable to us,
was, that we found him by no means a mere novice in the pur-
fuits of natural hiftory. Dr. Quenzel, who made the fame tour,
had him for his companion, and inftructed him in different par-
ticulars: he was, for inftance, no ftranger to the names of certain
infects, fuch as the coccinella trifafciata, and the curenlio areticus :
in the department of ornithology he knew the motacilla fuecica,
the turdus rofeus ; and in that of fifhes, the falmo alpina.
We directed our courfe towards Mount Pallas. The name of
this
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