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24 TRAVELS
could defire in the mild and rural ftyle. As we approached clofe
to the mountain we came upon a large lake which forms the
fource of the river. This lake is intercepted, however, by a ca-
taract of very confiderable length, fo incumbered with ftones,
that fcarcely an empty boat could have proceeded upon it. The
neceffities of thefe people impelled them to make an attempt to
remove fome of the ftones in this lake, and to turn them to one
fide for the purpofe of deepening the water in the middle, and fo
to facilitate the paflage of their fifhing-boats. We were affured,
that the firft perfons who fucceeded in furmounting the obftacles
which feparated the navigable part of this river from the lake,
had each of them, after fifteen days fifhing, four or five barrels of
fifh for his own fhare.
Mount Pallas, at a diftance, has a very fallacious appearance,
feeming to be of no confiderable fize, but becomes more impofing
in proportion as you approach it. The parfon informed us, that the
Finlanders have fix words to exprefs a mountain, each of which
ferves to denote fome diftinétive quality in the object; viz. 1ft,
Sadio, which fignifies a {mall rifing ground, furnifhed with wood ;
2dly, Rova, one of a more confiderable eminence, covered with
ftones; 3dly, Wara, a hill with a tuft of trees ; 4thly, Kero, a
large hill with brufhwood here and there on the furface; 5thly,
Tunduri, denoting a high naked mountain; and alfo a 6th name,
which is Se/ke, fignifying a long hill, without any allufion to its
height.
After doubling certain points and promontories, we rowed the
boat
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