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when we were there was bellis perrennis ; but the following grow 
in the neighbourhood : berberis vulgaris , corylus avellana, tulip a, 
narciffas, aqnilegia , torpeolum, paonia, diant has, ribes. 
We again changed horfes at Frankila, a village confiding of a 
few wooden houfes, nine miles from Kukko. We faw here fome 
women whofe looks were mild and rather agreeable ; the chil¬ 
dren too of a good appearance; but we were ftruck at the fight ot 
their bread, w T hich is made of two thirds draw, cut very fmall, 
and one third of meal. From Frankila you fee at a didance the 
mountain Nivavara, where dill remains the fignal pod which the 
French academicians ere&ed on its fummit to adid in their tri~ 
gonometrical operations; 
After Frankila you change horfes Korpicula fkorpi fignifies a 
wood, hila place), a didance of about eight miles. In this place 
the river Tornea forms a bafon of tranquil and gentle water,, 
which fucceeds the boiderous tumult of a fall or cafcade, called 
Matkakofki. The river prefents no pleafing view in this vicinity. 
We found in a houfe hard by fome peafants employed in making 
their fi thing nets; there was one who fmoked from fo fhert a 
pipe, that my companion remarked it, faying to me in Italian, 
che piccola pippa. The Finlander who was fmoaking, underdood 
perfe&ly our Italian, and repeated as he turned round to us, laugh¬ 
ing, picco pippo, picco pippo ; picco denoting in Finlandifh the dime 
as piccola in Italian. 
Eight miles from Korpicula is the church of Kirkomeki fkirko 
dignifying church, rneki, a hill), dtuated upon an eminence. About 
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