CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER XXVIII. 
State of the Road from Tornea to Upper Tornea—The People that 
inhabit this TraCt of Country—Ofver Tornea, or Upper Tornea 
—The fuperintendent Minifter of that Parifh—Hofpitality of the 
Clergy, and their Attention to Travellers—Vifit to Mount Ava- 
faxa : the Account which Maupertuis has given of this Mountain, 
very accurate—Remains of Signals upon the Mountain—InfeCls and 
Plants found on, or near Mount Avafaxa. Flora Avafaxenfis — 
Meat kept very long in the cold Seafon—Departure from Upper 
Tornea : Lofs of one fellow Traveller who returned home, 
CHAPTER XXIX. 
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The Travellers henceforth proceed by Water—Strong Currents of the 
Rivers, occafioned by Cataracts—Pafs by a Salmon Fifhery : man* 
ner of eating Salmon raw—Difficulty of navigating thofe Rivers — 
Stages 07 i this Journey—Pafs the ArCtic Polar Circle, near the 
Cataracts of Kattila Kofki—A fhort Paffiage by Land—Pello and 
Mount Kittis remarkable for Maupertuis's AJlronomical Obferva- 
tions — Mr. Swamberg’s Re 7 narks on the Labours of Maupertuis ; 
from which it appears, that his Obfervations are not to be depended 
on—Method of obtaining the Eggs of the Mergus Merganfor— 
From Kardis to Kengis—Arrival at Kengis, and Hofpitality fhewn 
by anlnfpeCtor of the Mines—A Stone with very ancient Infcrip- 
tions taken Notice of by Maupertuis-—Plants and InfeCts. 
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