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THROUGH LAPLAND. 83
CHAPTER -IX:
Some refrefhing Springs of Water—Farther Account of the River
Alten—Cataraéts—Rapidity of the River in fome Places, and
quick Progre/s of the Boats—Plenty of Fifh in the River Alten—
The Church of Maf—Mufquetoes—A finall River called Keinof-
joki—A Chain of Mountains to be croffed—Dull and melancholy
Appearance of the Country—Snow on the Mountains in the Midft
of Summer—Arrive at a folitary Cabin in a Wood—War with
the Mufquetoes—Change of Scenery in defcending from the Moun-
tains—Regain the River Alten, and meet with a Salmon Fifher—
Pafi another River, and purfue our Journey—Lofe our Way, and
at laff reach Alten Gaard.
URING the whole ot this journey, although we were for the
moft part on water, we felt a conftant thirft: this was but
ill quenched by brandy, and it was augmented by our mode of
living on dried meat and bifcuit. The water of the lakes, greatly
warmed by the continual rays of the fun, was far from being agree-
able; but that of the fprings, which we now and then found in
the little narrow vallies, fhaded by trees from the exceflive heat,
was fo frefh and pleafant, that we could fcarcely refrain from taking
large draughts of it at the moment we found it Some of thofe
M2 {fprings
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