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THROUGH LAPLAND. 81
imaginable, and under a temperature of climate approaching to
that of Italy. The thermometer of Celfius indicated the 25th de-
gree of heat at mid-day in the fhade ; expofed to the fun it rofe
to forty ; on the water it fubfided to nineteen. The women of
the village accompanied their hufbands to the fide of the river, and
bade us farewell in the moft affeGtionate manner. The voyage we
were about to undertake was long and painful, and which none of
the people had ever performed in fummer. Our departure deprived
the village of two-thirds of its population, and rendered for a time
five-cighths of the married women widows. We were follow-
ed by their looks till the winding of the river intercepted their
view ; nor was the fchool-mafter’s wife, fo little and fo ugly, the
leaft conftant or ardent in demonftrations of fenfibility and re-
gret at parting with fuch dear vifitors and friends. Our boats
were juft of a fize fufficient to contain the whole of our company,
with our luggage and tent. We were in all nine, diftributed in
two boats, which could not have carried one perfon more without
the danger of being overfet, or of finking to the bottom of the
water.
The river of Alten we found one of the moft beautiful we had
yet viewed in the courfe of our travels. It is at its commence-
ment a continued fucceffion of lakes of different fize and fhapes,
and interfperfed with iflets that are covered with the birch-tree.
‘Thee prefented a {cenery of landfcape, which far from having a
wild and harfh appearance, was fuch as might befeem a gentler
climate. Thofe lakes infpired us with an inclination for bathing :
Vor if. M their
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