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a TRAVELS
this circumftance that occafioned the alarm at the report of our
guns. The inhabitants could not conceive from what caufe, or
from what quarter the thundering noife proceeded, as it could not
occur to them that they might receive a vifit from any curious
ftrangers.
The village of Kautokeino is inhabited by four families and a
prieft, and it hasachurch. By the line of frontier agreed upon
in 1751, between Sweden and Denmark, Kautokeino was in-
cluded within the dominions of the latter. On looking at the
map one is furprifed to find here the boundary between thefe two
kingdoms ; inftead of its following the ridge of mountains, which
forms a natural feparation to the fouth and the north in that cor-
ner of Europe. By that arrangement the territory of Denmark
turns toward the fouth, and takes in an angle of Lapland, which
ougnt naturally to belong to Sweden. We did not fail to make
enquiry into the caufe of this fingular deviation from apparent rea-
fon and juftnefs, and we flattered ourfelves that we had traced it
to a fecret of ftate, being informed that it was the effect of bri-
bery and corruption. The Swedifh commiffary, we were told,
had been induced to make a ceffion of the angle in queftion by
the power of Danifh gold; and numerous extravagant anecdotes
were mentioned of this perfon, who was reprefented as much ad-
dicted both.to wine and to women; that care was taken to throw
in the way of this man of pleafure the whole luxury of Lapland;
and that he was overcome by the manifold temptations held out
to him, and agreed to the divifion as before ftated.
Romantic
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