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CHAPTER XXIV, 
Departure from Uleaborg■—Difficulty of travelling to the North Cape > 
through Lapland in Summer—Plan adopted by the Author and his 
Friends—Preparations for the Journey : an Acceffion of tzvo fellow 
Travellers—Ajfeffing Farewell—Journey purfued-—Defcription of 
a Finlandiffi Dance—Some Specimens of Mufc—Amufement at 
IJutta—Arrival at Kemi. 
nP^HE time was now approaching when we were to take leave 
of our friends, and profecute our intended travels to the 
North Cape. This journey appeared to every body at Uleaborg 
chimerical, and a project that would be found impracticable on 
experiment. Every perfon of our acquaintance pictured Lapland 
to us in the mod: frightful colours: they allured us from authori¬ 
ties true, or fuppofed to be true, that in dimmer it was abfolutely 
impoffible to find a road, or to pals from one place to another. 
Our friends condoled themfelves, in the profpeCt of our departure, 
with the idea, that we fhould foon ourfelves be convinced of the 
impracticability of our plan, and being difcouraged by the firft 
obltacles we fhould meet with, they fhould foon have the plea- 
fure of feeing us again on our return to Uleaborg. 
In the courfe of our flay here we had ftudied to obtain infor¬ 
mation 
