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and as experience has often proved, a lively red as the fun goes 
down prognosticates fine weather for to-morrow. This pheno¬ 
menon had jufi: fixed our attention, when behold a luminous arch 
rofe over the pole. This was accompanied by various other light 
and fleeting arches, which lhifted from place to place every in- 
fiiant: they were bounded here and there by vivid flames and 
torches, which iffued in rapid fucceffion from the Ikies, commu¬ 
nicating fire to the clouds in their vicinity, tinging their gilded 
edges, and exhibiting a picture highly interfiling to us, unaccuf- 
tomed as we were to fuch appearances. 
At length we had the good fortune to reach Yervenkyle, a fmall 
diftridl which belongs to the univerfity of Abo, and which is let 
to a very obliging peafant. This man gave us a bed-chamber, 
accommodated us as well as he could, and contrived, by his great 
hofpitality, to render three days neceffary repofe very agreeable. 
Some detail on this fimple and retired manfion, Handing at a 
fmall diftance from a beautiful cafcade (a fituation which afforded 
us much interfiling amufement, both as painters and fportfmen), 
will not be difagreeable to my curious readers, who may be de- 
firous to know rather minutely the particulars of this part of 
Finland. 
Yervenkyle is a fmall village confifiiing of three or four families, 
and fituated upon a lake. During the winter feafon people do 
not pafs through this place on their way to Wafa. Our motive 
in coming here was to enjoy a little refi, as well as to have a view 
of a fine cafcade of very confiderable magnitude, which is at the 
diftance 
