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206 OUTHIER’S JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO THE NORTH.
Not fo with the cows; in the villages along the rivers they goto no diftance from
the houfes to which they are daily taken to be milxed. At Torneo, in the fummer,
there are few cows brought tothe town: during rainy years, when the ifthmus of Nara
is overflowed by the river, they can only reach it by {wimming ; on this account many
of the burghers have fheds on the weftern banks of the river, fouth of Mattila, to which
their wives and maids go by water to milk them ; they are fmall, almoft all white, and
many without horns.
By then our boats had got up the cataract Waojenna, it was ten o’clock in the morn-
ing: we re-embarked, and took fhelter froma very heavy rain at two o’clock at Alkula.
We arrived at night at M. Brunius’s, where as ufual we were received in the moft gra-
cious manner.
Saturday morning, the eighth, after taking tea, which is much the practice in the
better houfes of the country, and eating our breakfaft, we fet off for Pello with only four
boats: the conductor of the fifth could not accompany us; he was a corporal, and had
received order to be at a certain place to attend the exercife of the foldiers. At eight
o’clock at night we arrived at Turtula, thatis to fay, to the houfe of Martila, where we
always took up our abode. We left it on Sunday, the ninth, at feven o’clock, and pro-
ceeded to dine on the rock of Pello Pyta: there was a fog, and very cold north wind ;
we made a good fire, for wood in this country is nowife fcarce.
At length, at three o’clock, we arrived at Pello, where we all met together, except
M. Herbelot, who was employed at Torneo on fome drawings he had to finifh. M.
Camus had been a fortnight at Pello ; he had been alone before joined by Meffrs. Clairaut
and Monnier, who accompanied the fextant with all the inftruments. M. Camus in that
time had got ready for us two apartments in the houfe of Corten Niemi, one of which
was intended for obfervations on the fimple pendulum, and to fix a telefcope in, to re-
culate them by the motion of the fixed ftars. M. Camus, for that purpofe, had caufed
the floor of the apartment to be cut, in order to erect a fhaft of {tone on which to fix
the telefcope, and hang the fimple pendulums: there remained therefore no more than
one room for fleeping at Corten Niemi. He had provided two others in the houfe of
Purainen, about one hundred and fifty toifes from the other: one of thefe apartments
was occupied by Meffrs. Clairaut, Le Monnier, and Celfius ; the other by M. de Mau-
pertuis and mylelf.
In the houfe of Saukola we fhould have been much nearer to Mount Kittis ; but it
belonged toa poor man who had not a fingle room fit for us.) M. Camus bought of
him his cotta, that is, a fort of pavilion higher than the other parts of the houfe, and
larger at the top than the bottom : at the top there is ufually a long pole with a wea-
ther-cock. In this cotta it is that {now is melted and water warmed to give to the cattle
during the winter : fome make their brandy in it from grain. M. Camus bought this
cotta then, and had it taken to pieces, and afterwards carried and put together again on
the mountain, where it ferved as an obfervatory to place the fextant in, and to take the
diftances of fome ftars from the zenith. We had the convenience of a forge at Corten
Niemi ; although not in very good condition, it was ufeful to us ; we even forged feveral
pieces of iron work for which we had occafion.
Monday morning, the tenth, we employed a great number of workmen, the horfes
were returned to their homes: thofe of our two hofts were ufed in drawing upon
fledges the cafes which contained the parts of our fextant: a {mall obfervatory was be-
gun, quite new, precifely over the point of the laft of our triangles, to take there the
direétion of the meridian, and to fix a pendulum. The following days thefe different
works were continued ; every one worked at the part afligned him ; all was in motion
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