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THROUGH LAPLAND. 123
utmoft kindnefs during the illnefs that detained them. They de-
termined to exhibit a fhow, which they conceived would draw
the Laplanders from all quarters to this place, and which feemed
calculated to make on the minds of this fimple people a great
impreffion. This was, to mount an air balloon. I know not
what effect this object might produce on the natives, but I have
reafon to fuppofe that the concourfe was not great. At their de-
parture they wrote down in the regifter their names, with the
following apoftrophe :—* Stranger, whoever thou art, that vifiteft
« thefe remote regions of the North, return to thy native country,
« and acknowledge that philanthropy is taught amidft civilized
“‘ nations, but practifed where theories of {cience never come.”
On the oppofite page of the book I again found the name of
Mr. Vefvrotti, who had come here to let the Laplanders know,
as he had before informed the Finlanders, in a kind of Franco-
Latin, that he had heretofore been prefident of the parliament of
Dijon.
«« Libertatem quzrens feditionifque theatrum fugiens, hic fuit,
«¢ die 15° Martil, anno 1792.”
“ Carolus Richard de Vefvrotti, Dijionenfis (of Dijon) prefes
«in fuprema rationum curié Burgundiz.”’
The minifter of Enontekis was a man of learning, and em-
ployed what leifure he has from his paftoral duties, in ftatiftical
and phyfiological inveftigations. He has made large colle¢tions in
natural hiftory of all kinds: he has alfo written a little book,
containing anfwers to a number of queries, made by a Swedith
RZ gentleman
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