TRAVELS 
by anticipation, and which was fo flattering to a lively imagina¬ 
tion, yielded to the attractions of Uleaborg, which promifed us 
pleafures and refources of a different defcription. The polite at¬ 
tention of Baron Silfverkielm, of Governor Carpalan, and the ac¬ 
quaintance we made of feveral other interefling characters, and 
the pleaflng accident of finding here two gentlemen amateurs of 
mufic, who, with my companion and myfelf, could execute a 
quartetto, made us forget our plan, and convert our five days flay 
into that of a couple of months. It being near the middle of 
April, the feafon w f as too far advanced; the ice began to wafte, 
and lofe its {Length, and the rivers became every day lefs fafe. 
We fhould have run the rifk. of being detained in a defert coun¬ 
try during the period of thaw, after which w T e mull have allowed 
at leafl a week till the earth had recovered its folidity, and the 
marfhy grounds had become dry. The attractive fcene of the 
change of feafons we might view at Uleaborg wfith nearly the 
fame advantage; and as to the phenomena of winter, we had al¬ 
ready feen fo much of them on our journey from Stockholm, that 
our curiofity was nearly gratified. In fliort, we found our fitua- , 
tion at Uleaborg fo agreeable, that we were at no lofs to difcover 
reafons for adapting our plan to our liking, or for juflifying our 
conduct in our own eyes. 
I found at Uleaborg that I might carry on a courfe of ftudy in¬ 
troductory to the natural hiftory of Lapland. An excellent op¬ 
portunity for this purfuit was afforded by Mr. Julin, apothecary 
at Uleaborg, who, befides a good collection of objects in every 
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