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THROUGH LAPLAND. 127
Our journey from Enontekis to Tornea lay always along the
banks of rivers: we pafled on to Muonionifca, where we faw our
friend the prieft, and our excellent pilot Simon. We vifited our
acquaintances at the different places we came to, for inftance, at
Kengis and Upper Tornea, where we paid our refpects to the mi-
nifter of the parifh, and his amiable daughters. At Tornea we did
not fail to wait on our friends, the rector and the merchants,
who confidered us prodigious travellers: and at laft we made a
triumphant entry into Uleaborg, where we difplayed to our fcru-
pulous friends, the fhells, {ponges, birds, and other natural curiofi-
ties we had collected, in proof of our having really been at the
North Cape, the fartheft extremity of Europe.
CONCLUSION.
«* THUS ends a courfe,” fays Reignard, in conclufion of his
Journey to Lapland, “ which I would not but have made for all
*€ the gold in the world, and which I would not for all the gold in
** the world make over again.” The French traveller could not,
in my mind, have drawn a jufter picture of his character, and the
fpirit in which he undertook his diftant travels, than is exhibited
in this enigmatical mode of expreffion.
Curiofity is either the effec of felf-intereft, infpiring a defire of
learning what may be ufeful; or of ‘ pride, which makes us am-
*« bitious of knowing fomething unknown to others.” Does not
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