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is, befides, another manufactory of pitch at Pyhajoki. The in¬ 
habitants are provided with milk from the parities of Pyhajoki 
and Kulajoki. 
We arrrived at Uleaborg on the feventh of April, where we 
found, clofe by the town-houfe, a tolerable inn, which is the only 
one in the place. At night, after we were gone to bed, we were 
furprifed by an incident which appeared to us very extraordinary 
in a country of fo high a latitude. I have long been in the dan¬ 
gerous habit, before falling alleep, to read a book for half an hour. 
That evening I happened to be reading Ariofto, when I thought I 
heard three taps on the window of our chamber, which was on the 
ground floor. I paid not the fmalleft attention to it the firfb 
nor even the fecond time. When it was repeated the third time, 
I began to fufpecft it had fome meaning; but as I read Ariofto, I 
was difpofed to doubt whether it was not an effect of my imagi¬ 
nation, heated perhaps by that of the poet. The fourth time, 
however, I had fcarce the fhadow of a doubt that it was fome- 
body who tapped at the window ; but ftill, to guard againft illu- 
fton, I awaked my companion, who flept in another bed in the 
fame room; and after acquainting him with my impreflion, 
prayed him to liften, and obferve whether he could not hear a 
noife at the window. We then heard the three traps repeated, 
accompanied with a voice, which uttered fomething indiltinctly. 
I rofc, put on my pelice, and taking up my piftols went out of 
the chamber to fee what it might be. But how great was my 
furprife !...,It w'as a fine girl who wanted a corner of a bed. I 
immediately 
