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CHAPTER XXVIL 
Kejidence at Tornea—Some Individuals of this Place mentioned—A 
new Addition to the travelling Party : Enumeration of the fcien - 
life Perfons that now compofed it—Departure from Tornea—Some 
topographical Remarks on the Environs—Face of the Country be¬ 
tween Tornea and Upper Tornea—Different Stages that are paffed 
■—Salmon Fifhery—Particular Method of catching thefe Fifh—An 
old Man ferving for a Guide—A Bathing-place, after the Fin- 
landifh Fafhion — Hand-mills for grinding Corn—A few Plants 
mentioned. 
"¥^\URING our Ray at Tornea we became acquainted with 
every perfon who was at all difpofed to be fociable. The 
moR confiderable merchant of the town is Mr. Richard, a man 
well acquainted with the concerns of his country, and pofleRed 
of a great fhare of natural good fenfe : he has been always a re- 
prefentative in the national diet, and is the moR corpulent man 
I ever faw in any country. The burgomaRer of Tornea was ex¬ 
tremely polite and obliging. We received civilities from the maf- 
ter of the town-fehool, who fpeaks French, and is a man of fomc 
merit: he lives, much againR his inclination, in fo remote a cor¬ 
ner of the North: he is fettered to the place by the ties of a wife' 
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