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302 OUTHIER’S JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO THE NORTH.
fextant; and M. de Maupertuis was yet defirous of making, for two days longer, fome
experiments on the fimple pendulums. We continued therefore thofe which we had
before begun; but as the weather was ftill bad, and we could make no obiervations
with the fixed telefcope, to afcertain the motion of the pendulum of Mr. Graham, which
we had referved: M. de Maupertuis, fearful of being detained too long a time, if the
river fhould happen to be frozen, refolved on our departure the next day. He wifhed
to make experiments of gravity without interruption by the pendulum of Mr. Graham,
which for fome days back we had placed in the apartment of the {tone fhaft : we there-
fore left it at Pello, with the other fimple pendulums which had not been tried, defign-
ing to come back ina fledge during the winter, when we were given to underftand-we
might expect a very ferene iky.
Friday, the twenty-fixth, Mefirs. de Maupertuis, Sommereux, Helant, and myfelf,
embarked for Torneo: we dined at Hyougfing, in the houfe where we had been fo well
received the thirtieth of July, and by night reached the houfe of M. Brunius. The
failors which brought us from Pello knew the danger to which they were expofed, by
being at any great diftance from home at fucha feafon: they were apprehenfive, if the
froft began, of being {topped by the ice on the river on their return ; on which account
they befought us to take others for the continuation of our voyage. We took four at
Ofwer Torneo, and departed early on Saturday morning, the twenty-feventh. We
dined at Coifwunkyla, at a friendly farmer’s, whofe nephew, then in the houfe with
him, fpoke Latin. M. de Maupertuis made him dine with us; and we were locked
upon with great curiofity by all the family.
We did not land to go down the catara&t Waojenna, which was frightful, as much
from the contrary wind, as the great abundance of water; for many years the river
had not been fo much fwollen at that feafon. The cataratt Macka was fo ftrong and
impetuous, that not only did we land, but the failors themfelves were obliged to unload
their boats, to carry their loading along the bank of the river, for the fpace of from one
hundred to one hundred and fifty toifes, and afterwards to pull their boats afhore, and
drag them the fame diftance, to launch them again into the water below the cataract:
there they loaded them afrefh, and we embarked. We reckoned upon fleeping at Tohi-
wolan Sari, where we had before flept on the third of September; but at five o’clock
getting dark, and the bad weather continuing, we Janded at the houfe of Frankila, be-
longing to a very hofpitable farmer, where we fared pretty well: we flept there, as ufual,
fome on benches, fome on tables, and others on the floor.
* Sunday morning, the twenty-eighth, the fky became ferene, and our watermen, fearful
of cold and ice, fet off with us a long time before day-light: they would not allow us to
remain in the boats at the cataract of Kukula, below which we again went on board.
We faw a number of fwans on the banks of the river. We pafled over the ifthmus
of Nara in our boats, where the waters of the river formed a little cataract, entirely
furrounding with water the town of Torneo.
M. Piping, the burgomatter, could fpare us no more than four apartments, one of
which was required for our fervants : we were very well able to bear with being a little
ftraitened for room, where we pafled a few days only at his houfe ; but now having to
pafs the winter at Torneo, we fought to lodge more comfortably. _Inftead therefore of
landing at M. Piping’s, at his houfe of Nara, at the village of Mattila, we advanced far-
ther with our boats, and landed pretty nigh the town-houfe, and proceeded to the houfe
of a citizen, who had provided for us a dining-parlour and two bed-rooms, which Meflrs.
Le Monnier and Celfius chofe for themfelves: Mefirs. Camus and Herbelot lodged in
the fame ftreet, with a M. Planftron: M. Clairaut lodged at M. Creuger’s; and M. de
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