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THROUGH LAPLAND. 25
boat as near as we could to the mount Keimio-tunduri, which we
immediately began to climb. The afcent is extremely difficult
and troublefome, in as much as we had not only to climb, but
to open a paffage with our hands acrofs woods which nobody per-
haps ever penetrated before, at leaft certainly not from motives of
amufement. At laft we came to a part of the mountain which is
bare of trees, where we found, with fome concern, that it was im-
poffible for us to get to mount Pallas, by reafon of fwamps and
{mall lakes, which infulated the mountain, and which were them-
felves fecluded from one another by impaffable marfhes. At the
top of Keimio we had all around under our eye a vaft profpeét,
which afforded us a moft perfect idea of the country. To-
wards the eaft and weft, the furface is covered with {mall hills as
far as the eye can reach, whofe tops feemed to mix with the fkies
at the horizon; northward, mount Pallas lifts his head far above
the other objects, and looks down upon all the adjacent moun-
tains: but the view towards the fouth prefented an immenfe tract
of country wholly inacceffible and impenetrable to man, confifting
of a difmal and dreary extent of {wamps and marfhy foil.
The whole of what we faw was more calculated to intereft a
geographer than a painter, who could perceive very little that
would fuit the purpofes of his art. Between us and mount Pallas
lay a fmall lake, on whofe furface the ice had not yet entirely
difappeared: being fituated in the bottom of the valley, it was
fereened from the folar rays, and as it was probably formed of
fnow water, which had run down from the mountains, it might
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