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ULEABORG TO THE NORTH CAPE. 365
LOCAL OBSERVATIONS,
Ervaf. A room for travellers.
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Rautiola is a fmall village on the left bank of the Kemi, which is a con-
fiderable river, and flows with great rapidity.
Kemi is alfo the name of the parifh, where the church and the reétor’s
houfe are, on the right bank of the river Kemi. The road hilly: you
pafs a little bridge over the river Kakama.
Leivaniemi. Wo apartments for travellers. The ice having deftroyed
all the bridges between this and Tornea, we were obliged to crofs fe-
veral branches of the river Licdakala in a ferry-boat, as likewife the
river Kumo. At laft you pafs the river Tornea by means of a ferry,
leaving the horfes on the left bank, and taking with you your luggage
only.
Tornea is a {mall trading town, fituated upon a peninfula at the mouth
of the river Tornea. You go fome way up the river, and leave on
your right a fmall wood of pine-trees, the only ones in this vicinity.
Kukko: this word fignifies in the Finnifh language a cock. Two or
three houfes, without any accommodation for travellers,
Frankila. No lodging for paffengers. You go clofe by a fmall country
houfe belonging to Mr. Richard, a merchant of Tornea.
Korpicula
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