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286 OUTHIER’S JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO THE NORTH.
internal fplit part outwards, in order that its whitenefs might make it diftinguifhable with
eafe.
We returned to our boat, on Thurfday the third, at eight o’clock in the evening,
and arrived on Friday morning at one o’clock, at the fummit of Pullingi. After
having related to Mefirs. de Maupertuis, Le Monnier, and Celfius, the difficulties we
had met with, and after informing them that beyond Kittis, no place was vifible proper
for continuing the triangles, that the river did not even continue from the fame direc-
tion, its courfe being from a great inclination towards the weft ; we refolved in concert to
fet oe immediately in fearch of fome mountains to the caftward, from which we might
difcover Pullingi, Horrilakero, or Ketima, and Kittis. We then at noon left Pullingi.
M. Celfius had inftruéted the Swedith officer in what was neceflary for making good
triangles : this officer with fix foldiers went towards the S. E., while M. Helant and my-
felf went with fix foldiers tothe E.N.E. We paffed through the village of Turtula,
where they were reaping fome very fine barley ; and after going througha fhort dittance
of wood, intermixed with marfhes, we embarked on lake Pamas: we continued a little
forward into the river Hanki, having marfhes in the woods at its fides, and after-
wards having walked for a long time amid woods and marfhes, we found Mount
Kukas, the fummit of which we reached at nine in the evening. Immediately we.
made a great fire; this was always our firft meafure on account of the gnats, and atter
taking, with a compals, from the tops of trees, the directions of Horrilakero, Pullingi,
and Kittis, the fignals on which I difcovered, on the fourth, we caufed thofe trees to
be felled which were in the fuitable direétions, fo forming avenues in the mid{t of
which the fignal was placed, whence we perceived Horrilakero, Pullingi, and Kittis.
We did not finifh til Saturday at fix o’clock: we then returned to our boats; and by
the lake Pamas, entered the river of that name; there was fo very little water that every
inftant we were obliged to get out of the boat, and leap from rock to rock, for the
river is full of them. We did not get to Turtula until midnight. We took up our
abode witha rich farmer, whofe houfe is called Martila. M. Helant threw himfelf on a
bed, for my part I preferred fleeping on a bench with which all their chambers are
furnithed, going entirely round, and of a good breadth. We left this place on the. fifth,
thortly after four o’clock in the morning, and reached Pullingi by feven o’clock.
All day, Sunday, the weather was delightful, and very few flies; the obfervations
were continued ; the fignal upon Kittis was diflinctly feen, as well as that I had con-
{truéted upon Kukas ; ; and two which the Swedifh officer had creéted, the one on Niemi,
which was employed in the triangles, and the other on Mount Alpus. This laft would
have made a better triangle, but it was not diftinguifhable from Kittis. The two con-
ftructed by M. VWelant and me upon Ketima and Kukas, were not ufed, Niemi being
more advantageous than Kukas, feeing that Kukama was feen from it, and that it
thence completed a heptagon.
On Sunday evening we began fending down our baggage, and at feven-o’clock in
the morning of Monday , the fixth, we all went down to embark on the Lake Keutas,
and proceed in our five boats to the fide of the great river.
The river Keutas is not navigable, as well from want of water, as from what there is
being employed for turning a faw mill; this mill is as ingenioufly contrived as thofe in
France ; after the log or tr unk of a tree, which is placed to be fawed has advanced to its
whole length, and it has been fawed through from one end to the other, the motion of
the water carries it back again to receive a fecond fawing. _In other places on thefe little
rivers, they have very {mall mills for grinding grain, which have only one horizontal
wheel turned by the water : the ftones placed on the fame axis are very {mall, and make -
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