THROUGH FINLAND. 
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jervi and Sotkamo, at the village of Riftiarfoi, and in the parifh 
of Paldamo, mill-ftones may be obtained, which confift of a very 
good fand-flone. About a couple of miles to the northward 
of Uleaborg, is found on the highway the well known Rapa- 
klvi, which, according to Kirwan, is an aggregate of feltfpar and 
viica ; its colour is brown, or brownifh red ; it moulders by ex- 
pofure to the air; but that is only when the mica exceeds. Mr. 
Kirwan adds, when the feltfpar exceeds, it forms a durable Rone, 
called in Italy granltone* 
There is no great chain of mountains nearer to Uleaborg than 
the land ridge to the north-eaft, and eaft fouth-eaft ; the ground 
being for the moll part low, and covered with coppices, bogs, 
and moralfes; which give to the country around the town a dull 
and heavy appearance. The fituation being damp, and not fufE- 
ciently Sheltered, the effects of night frofts are always feverely felt. 
The land ridge is a vail chain of mountains running eaft ward, 
from the Haldefield in Tornea Lapmark to Peletowaddi in Kemi, 
forming a boundary between Sweden and Norway, and between 
the parifhes Enara and Soetankyla ; and after ftretching farther to 
the fouth-eaft, it proceeds fouthward through Kemi to Wiife- 
wana, by the church of Kuufamo, to Sarwitaiftal, and hence ex¬ 
tending to Kojuretapal, it conftitutes the boundary between the 
parifhes of Paldamo, Sotkamo, and Ruffta. 
* See Kirwan’s Elements of Mineralogy, vol. i. p. 345. By Linmsus it was-fhil 
called muria faxi ex mica fpata que, and thus characterifed : Conjlat faxo aggre~ 
gato ex fpato Jlavo et mica deliquefcente fub dio verfus meridiem. And in the later 
editions it was termed, faxitm fatifecns, and defcribed in this manner: fpatofwn 
micaccumque falfumfatifcens. 
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