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horfes all the way. The road is naturally good, and kept in ex¬ 
cellent repair: but at Upper Tornea every thing terminates; you 
inflantly obferve that you are about to enter an uncultivated 
country, and to take leave of the civilized world. No more 
horfes, no road, no lodging for paffengers, except a fort of caravan- 
fary, which the merchants of Tornea have provided for their ac¬ 
commodation in travelling in winter to the different fairs, which 
are held at places extremely remote. Without anticipating our 
detail, w 7 e will premife a fketch of the country and obje&s that 
fell under our notice on the route to Ofver, or Upper Tornea. 
The environs of Tornea are extremely naked of wood: it was 
in great abundance formerly ; but at prefent none remains, except 
in one diflridfc, where it is preferred by a proprietor for the pur- 
pofe of harbouring game. 
We changed horfes at Kukko, wdiich lies at the diftanee of feven 
miles from Tornea. Kukko, in the language of Finland, fignifies 
cock, and it is probably the name for a particular fpecies of that 
bird, w'hofe crowing has fome analogy to the note of the cuckoo. 
The line of the road runs pretty clofe to the river Tornea. After 
Kukko we paffed very near to the villa of Mr. Richard, the mer¬ 
chant of Tornea, who is fond of a country life, and devoted to 
agricultural purfuits. He has laid out a garden, which he culti¬ 
vates with great care, and in w’hich he has made repeated trials 
to raife various exotic fruits and plants. His gardener told us he 
had attempted to rear apple trees, which had taken root and fuc- 
ceeded for three years, but then died. The only plant in flower 
when 
