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THROUGH LAPLAND. 99
our legs fo benumbed that they were fcarcely able to fupport us
on the beach.
After dreffing ourfelves and fhaving our beards, which were of
fix days growth, we were called to dinner; and not a little fur-
prifed to find fix different difhes, with a bottle of wine fet down
for each perfon. This profpeét comforted us ftill more than the
view of the Frozen Ocean, and after dinner we found ourfelyes
more refrefhed by the wine than we had been by the fea water.
We thought ourfelves now in paradife, in elyfium, in an en-
chanted palace. Every thing was good; every thing was delici-
ous; and the keennefs of our appetite doubled the convivial and
focial pleafure. The merchant was a married man, and his lady
was an excellent practical cook, as well asa perfect houfewife.
They had a boy who waited at table; and the fociety of the
houfe was increafed by the refidence of the bailiff of that diftri&
of Lapland, who after the death of his wife had come to live with
the merchant, for the fake of company. The bailiff was a very
worthy and pleafant man, and much efteemed in this family, and
in all the diftri€t. We found ourfelves fo comfortably fituated
here, that it was not without regret we began to talk of proceed-
ing in our expedition to the North Cape ; this, however, was in-
difpenfible, for it was proper and neceffary to avail ourfelves of
the favourable feafon. We inquired into the beft manner of per-
forming this route ; how many days it would require by land,
and how many by fea; if any one had made this journey before
us; and what was the diftance between the North Cape and Al-
O2 ten?
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