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THROUGH LAPLAND. 85
work of art. It was covered with a canopy of trees, which inter-
cepted the rays of the fun. We continued to defcend by a branch
of the river Alten, which flowed with fuch rapidity, that if credit
may be given to our Lapland boatmen, we performed almoft a
Norwegian mile (or eight Englifh) in little more than a quarter
of an hour. When the current began to be very ftrong, our
boatmen defired us to look at our watches, that we might be able
to afcertain how much time we fhould take in getting on a mile.
We did fo; and when we reached the end of what they com-
puted to be a Norwegian mile, we found that the time taken up
was twenty minutes. Our boatmen now wanted fome repofe,
and we fet up our tent near the {mall church of Mafi, on the
right bank of the Alten. We lighted feveral fires, and one as
ufual in the midft of our tent, to defend us from the mufquetoes,
our eternal tormentors. Our Laplanders, before laying them-
felves down to take their reft, afked permiffion to go and let
down the nets in the river, and draw them only once. They
obtained our leave to do fo, and our interpreter thought it an
amufement to go along with them. ‘They returned in a quarter
of an hour with more than two hundred fifhes of different {forts
and fizes, fome more than a foot in length. Part of them was
drefled for our fupper: the reft the Laplanders gutted, and hung
up on trees to dry, which they intended to take home with them
on their return.
Next morning, before we refumed our voyage, we paid a vifit
to the {mall church of Mafi, which is embofomed in the midft of
trees
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