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OUTHIER’S JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO THE NORTH, 287
no more yevolutions than the water wheel: it only crufhes the grain very coarfely, with
the {traw which is mixed with it to increafe the bulk. There is one of thefe mills on the
Tengelio, below Lake Portimo ; they have fome, the water wheels of which are vertical,
but as fmall as the former, and w hich grind no better: we met with one in going from
Karungito Kukuma, on the little river Mutta, in the middle of the woods ; M. Piping
has.a fimiliar one at Torneo: N. of Torneo we met no longer with windmills.
The health of M. Monnier was far from being re- eftablifhed : notwithtt anding he
made, befides obfervations of the angles, fome on the meridional elevation of the fun,
in concert with M. de Maupertuis and Celfius; and obferved an eclipfe of Aldebaran
by the moon, which was ufeful in afcertaining the difference between the meridians of
Pullingi and Paris. To get better it was ‘neceflar y he fhould be more comfort: bly
lodged, and above all receive nourifhment of a lefs difgufting nature than flies. In vain
did M. de Maupertuis ufe the moft prefling intreaties to induce him to remain at Tur-
tula, where he would have had very comfortable accommodation at the iarmer’s of
Martila; or to defcend the river to Ofwer Torneo, and go to the houle of M. Brunius,
where he would have found Meffrs. Clairaut and Camus ; he infifted abfolutely on ac-
companying us to Pillo, We therefore all went on board, and at noon found ourfelves
clofe to a large even rock, on the weftern fide of the river, on which we dined. The
inhabitants call it Pellon Pyta, which in the Finnifh language fignifies the table of Pillo;
it is a practice among them on going up_the river to make a “ineal there before the
afcend the cataracts : “thefe were not fo full of rocks, as the cataracts of Katilla, and the
others lower down ; neverthelefs the river is very rapid, and they are not got up without
difficulty.
We landed at the houfe of Saukola the moft northern of Pillo, and the nearett to Kittis.
‘We arrived at our fignal at five o’clock: the weather was delig htful; we obferved the
angles between Pullingi, and Niemi, and Kukas, as well as the | elevation of the fignals.
We flept on the monntain, and the next day took the meridional height of the fun.
We made fecure here as in every previous in{tance of the center of the fignal by differ.
ent marks, and lines of trees and neighbouring rocks, by ftakes deeply funk, in order to
find it again, if by any accident, and above all by fire, it fhould happen to be deltroyed.
We found a number of fmall flies but fewer gnats on this mountain.
At four in the afternoon, we went down Kittis to vifit the houfes of Corten Niemi,
and Purainen, and to know if the owners could furnifh lodgings for us, when we re-
turned to make the celeflial obfervations. The houfe of Saukola would have been
nearer to the mountain, but it was not fit for us, while here we found two fufficiently
commodious rooms in eich of thefe. We went on board at five o’clock, and arrived at
Turtula at eight, where we fupped, and flept at the honfe Martila. Were it not for the
{mall gnats during the night, it would have been pleafant, the weather being charming :
they had juft gathered in their hay here, as wellas at Pello, and were about the end of
their barley harveft. We began to fee {mall birds fuch as fparrows and finches; till
now we had feen none but fwallows. Many more ducks were feen on the river.
After leaving ‘Torneo, we met no longer with any domefti: fowls, unlefs at the houfe
of M. Brunius. The country people faften to the bottoms of trees, logs of wood or
trunks of trees hollowed, to attract certain large birds, who come to thefe places to lay
their eggs, which they le and eat. The fun fet at nine o’clock, and at midnight
there was f{carcely fufficient twilight to read.
On the eighth, I joined M. de Maupertuis, and we perfuaded M. Le Monnier, who
was in a very languid ftate, to go to reft himfelf, and recruit his health at Ofwer Yorneo ;
Meffrs. Sommereux and Helant accompanied him’; and fent their boat back to Tur-
tula,
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