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other, who will have the fame horfes after they are returned from 
the firfl. 
The country rifes into fmall hills, which here and there are 
covered with pine and fir-trees. In the vicinity of rivers, and in 
marfhy ground, the willow and birch-tree feem to be favourites 
of the foil. The profpedl affords nothing very intereffing, except 
the continual prefence of the fun, w r hich, as he never leaves the 
horizon, renders travelling by night extremely agreeable. 
The inhabitants, on the whole of this route, are of the true 
Finnifh race, and fpeak the genuine language of Finland; they 
all have the fame habits, the fame ffature, the fame drefs, the 
fame wants, and the fame manner of living. 
Ofver Tornea, or Upper Tornea, is the parifli which has the 
fuperintendence of all the clergy and churches of that part of 
Lapland, which is in the dependence of Tornea. The head mini- 
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fler of the parifh is the reverend Mr. Swamberg. Having paid our 
compliments to him, he infilled on our lodging at his houfe with 
our whole company, ten perfons in all. The place where travel¬ 
lers commonly flop, is the village of Mattarange, at the diflanqe 
of about a hundred yards from the clergyman’s houfe ; but Mr. 
Caflrein, who wras of our party, being himfelf a fuperintendent, 
and of the fame rank with Mr. Swamberg, could not have re¬ 
mained with us, or done lefs -than fleep at the houfe of a brother 
clergyman. There was flill a more cogent reafon for our lodging 
with Mr. Swamberg, namely, that at Mattarange the accommo¬ 
dations are miferably bad, and would not have been capacious 
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