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threw cold water upon his head,fqueezed his hair, and with foap and 
water w r afhed his whole body, and rubbed him dow 7 n to the girdle. 
She then went to his feet, and rubbed his legs completely, parti¬ 
cularly his ankles, and the tendon achillis. Meanwhile I was ex¬ 
tremely attentive, and almod dupified at the whole operation: 
but w r hat adonidied me mod: w r as the perfe<d apathy with which 
the minider endured this long and dimulating procefs. When it 
came to be my turn to fubmit, I found myfelf in a Rate of extreme 
embarradment—and at lad: I was very glad to get on my clothes, 
and walk out of the bath. At quitting it, we made a prefent of' 
fome halfpence to the girl: this is a very ancient cudom, to which 
every individual invariably conforms, and is obferved even by a 
matter towards his fervant, as in the prefent indance. This 
prefent has a particular appellation in the language of Finland, 
namely fauna raha. 
Before we take our leave of Kemi, it is proper I diould give 
fome account of our botanical excurfions. Mr. Cadrein is an ex¬ 
cellent botanid, though he follows this purfuit more as an amufe- 
ment than a branch of dudy. It is to him that the fcience is in¬ 
debted for the difcovery of a famous plant, viz. cypripedlum bul- 
bofum, which was drd feen by Rudbeck, in the year 1085, but 
had never been found fince by any botanid, not even by the great 
Linnaeus, who paded this way in July, and confequcntly a month 
after it had been in dower. This plant fkulks among the under¬ 
wood and dr-trees, which furround the church of Kemi. It mo- 
dedly eludes the prying eyes of the padenger, and loves the tem- 
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