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ing, I communicated my impreffions to Mr. Caftrein, who was 
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affefted by my defcription, and promifed to take care of that un¬ 
happy family. 
One of the winders which our new friends were dcfirous to 
fhew us in our walks about Kemi, was a bell that was intended to 
be fixed in the dome of the new church. We were accompanied 
thither by Mr. Caftrein’s fillers, and our expedition was confidered 
as a kind of facred vifit. The great object of our curiofity turned 
out to be a couple of bells of a moderate diameter: they w T ere 
loaded with a number of Finlandifh infcriptions. The place 
where they were, w'as but at a little diftance from the minifter’s 
houfe. Moft of our party, ourfelves excepted, were perfe<5tly ac¬ 
quainted with the language of Finland; and the ladies undertook 
to read the infcriptions, and tranflate them into Sw^edilh. The 
prettieft girl in the company immediately read aloud, “ Catzo," 
&c. &c. Scarcely had fhe pronounced the w r ord, when we began 
to laugh like fools, and the ladies, ignorant of the caufe of our 
mirth, thought that catzo mull be a very laughable w r ord, and 
therefore never ceafed repeating it in the w hole courfe of our w'alk, 
at table, in converfation, and on all occafions. Let the reader 
judge what fort of effedl this w’ord, fo often repeated by the com¬ 
pany, mull have produced on the ears of two Italians. Catzo, in 
Finlandifh, fignifies here is. 
Mr. Caftrein, who wiflied to inftrud: me in all the Finlandifli 
cuftoms, afked me if I had ever bathed according to the ufage of 
the country ; and being anfwered in the negative, faid, we fliould 
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