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TRAVELS 
CHAPTER XXVIII. 
State of the Road from Tornea to Upper Tornea—The People that 
inhabit tlus Tradi of Country—Ofver Tornea , or Upper Tornea 
—The Superintendent Minifter of that Parifh—Hofpitality of the 
Clergy , and their Attention to Travellers — Vi/it to Mount Ava- 
faxa : the Account which Maupertuis has given of this Mountain , 
very accurate—Remains of Signals upon the Mountain—Infedls and 
Plants found on, or near Mount Avafaxa. Flora Avafaxenfs — 
Meat kept very long in the cold Seafon—Departure from Upper 
Tornea : Lofs of one fellow Traveller who returned home. 
? IVFIE whole of the road from Tornea to Upper Tornea is to- 
lerably well formed, and kept, as I obferved before, in good 
repair, and of a fuflicient breadth to admit of travelling in any fort 
of carriage : it has been made in the courfe of thelaft thirty years. 
When De la Motraye* was in this country, he was obliged to per¬ 
form his journey in a boat. Travellers fhould contrive it fo as 
never to have occafion for more than four horfes at a time, as you 
meet with Rages where there are no more to be found. If it 
Ihould fo happen that a greater number is wanted, the company 
fhould divide into two parties, one going on a day before the 
* See his Travels. 
other, 
