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OUTHIER’S JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO THE NORTH, 273
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Sommereux and myfelf continued our route by land with the coaches, and arrived
there at feven o’clock in the evening. This place is called Lullea gammal ftadt, that
is to fay, Lullea the old town; it isa large place built about the church; there are
ftreets in it, asin a town, but without being furrounded by paliffades. New Lullea is a
town, a good league from it on the fea fhore, which, we did not {ce from Ernas to Lullea,
a mile and a quarter.
On quitting Lullea, we entered a country much diverfified by woods, marfhes, and
fine ficlds, well cultivated. After pafling a large collection of water over a bridge, at ’
a mile anda half from Lullea, we reached the poft houfe of Porfeon, fituated in delight-
ful meadows. We left it at eleven o’clock at night, pafling the plain, we went up hill,
through a wood; from this eminence we faw the fun entire, although it wanted but a
quarter of an hour of midnight. M.Le Monnier and myfelf climbed up trees; we
wifhed much to fee the fun at midnight, and would gladly have waited, but we could
not hold out againft the gnats, which plagued us to death: continuing our route we
defcended into a valley, and loft the fun. The country continued covered with woods
of fir and birch, and marfhes, and after a mile and a half, we paffed a great river in a
boat to get to Raunea, where we arrived the nineteenth, at three o’clock in the morn-
ing, and by a fimilar road at Huitathn, a mile and a quarter beyond. For there we pafled
two bridges, over watry marfhes, and reached Toreby at eight o’clock, diftant a mile and
five eighths ; we paffed through great woods by a mountainous and unequal country.
It was nearly noon, when we found ourfelves on the bank of a great river, which forms
a lake, from which it iffues with rapidity. On both fides the river the country is well
cultivated, with fome houfes; till two o’clock we followed the courfe of its fouthern bank,
and after two miles riding we crofled it in a boat to arrive at Calix; M. Celfius, and
fome others of our party went to the clergyman’s or rector’s, called in Swedifh
Kyrckher.
From Calix, we fet off at four o’clock, always through woods, with bad and fandy
roads. ‘The fervant which we had with us, who went before, fent us horfes to the
middle of the wood, and we changed after having gone a mile. We walked another
mile, paffed between two lakes, and came to a little river juft before a village called
Sangis, where there are fome well cultivated fields, as is generally the cafe, round about
the villages and hamlets of the country ; which are ever near the banks of fome river,
or the fhores of fome gulph.
At Sangis, we croffed in a boat a large river, and took horfes, with which we travelled
for a mile between lakes, through a mountainous country, interfected by marfhes, as
far as Sanhiwitz, where we arrived, at eleven o’clock at night. We yet continued
among woods, and marfhes, croffed two bridges over fmall rivers ; then an arm of the
fea ina boat at two o’clock on the twentieth, and a fimilar at four: yet fome woods,
and marfhes; after which we arrived at Huparanda, upon the fhore of the gulph,
formed by the river Torneo, at five o’clock, two miles diftant from Sanhiwitz, and one
hundred and feven miles and three eighths, from Stockholm.
We paffed this gulph with our coaches by boats to go to Torneo, where we reckoned
no taking up our quarters; but having learned that M. Piping, burgomatter of the town,
dived near the bottom of the Gulph at Martila, in his houfe called Nara, we did not go
down to the town, but went in the fame boat to the bottom of the bay, and entered
the houfe of M. Piping, who had been informed of our journey by M. D’Hegreman,
his fon-in-law, a merchant of Stockholm ; and in confequence prepared apartments for
us. M. Clairaut and thofe whowere in his coach, arrived foon afterus. We were all
very much fatigued ; and refted ourfelves during Wednefday and Thurfday. It was
VOL. I. NN the
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