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a fmall houfc adjoining, I faw a kind of hand-mill to grind corn 
for the family : it confided of two round {tones, in the uppermoft 
of which was inferted a {tick, whofe other extremity pafled 
through a hole in a triangular board, which was fattened to the 
corner of the room. 
Proceeding fix miles beyond Kirkomeki, we arrived at Niemis 
which word fignifies, in the language of the country, a promon¬ 
tory : here we changed horfes for the laft time. It is a groupe 
of fmall wooden houfes, where we faw fome little boats on the 
river Armesjoki : the place is a fmall dependency of Tomea. 
Farther on you have a view of a mountain named Luppio, which 
is compofed of rocks that are feemingly falling into ruins. 
From Niemis to Upper Tornea is eight miles: this is the laft 
ftage of the journey. The road is mountainous, and in fome 
places fo full of fand, as to render it extremely fatiguing to the 
horfes. We reached Upper Tornea on the eighteenth of June in 
the afternoon. The plants which we found in flower, in the 
courfe of this route, were the following : 
Menyanthes trifoliata Cornus fuecica 
Trientalis Europasa Leontodon taraxacum 
Betula nana Rubus chamoemorus 
Andromeda polifolia Rubus ardticus. 
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