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TRAVELS 
journey in a kind of waggon or cart drawn by horfes. The place 
where we eroded the mouth of the river is about two thoufand 
yards broad ; there are boats for the purpofe of carrying travellers 
over, with accommodation for a carriage and horfes. Here the 
women perform the avocation of boatmen. 
We changed horfes at Sukuri, nine miles from Uleaborg: the 
road was very good, though always in the midft of woods and 
meadow grounds, called by the Swedes ting, or mg, from whence is 
obvioudy derived the Englifh word inge. In thofe countries mea¬ 
dows do not confifl, as in other places, of open grounds without 
trees, but are in general covered with brufh-wood and flirubbery, 
to which they fend their cattle to pafture on the narrow pieces 
of grafs that run through thefe meadows. The great woods, in 
which there are trees of enormous fize, ferve as a common pas¬ 
ture to all the peafantry of the neighbourhood. They conftantly 
hang a bell about the horfes’ necks, and let them run about in the 
woods for four months, without giving themfelves the leafl trouble 
concerning them. We changed horfes about four times after 
leaving Sukuri, before we got to Teflile, a place confiding of two 
or three w r ooden houfes. The above four fiages are too infigni- 
ficant to merit any farther notice. 
Having eroded a fmall river named Leivaniemi, in a ferry¬ 
boat, the feraping of a fiddle invited us to enter the hut of a pea- 
fant, Handing on the left bank, where ten or twelve country 
people were dancing with all their might. Our entrance inter¬ 
rupted the dance, and the furprife occafioned by the novelty of 
our 
