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lively, and poiTeffed Lome degree of natural wit. One of them 
played on the piano-forte, and tolerably well for a dilettante of 
that climate. There is an organifl here for the fervice of the 
church. The organ is a pretty good one, and was the object of 
the minilfer’s higheft ambition, who has the honour to be clergy¬ 
man of the moft northern church in Europe that has an organ. 
We palled two days in the fociety of this family, which, owing to 
the many different avocations that fucceeded to each other with 
great rapidity, appeared very fhort. 
Our vifit to mount Avafaxa was the pleafanteft and moft in- 
terefling of all our excurfions. It is concerning this mountain 
that Maupertuis fpeaks in his book on the theory of the earth. 
Our walk was very fimilar to his, directed on the fame fide, and 
in the fame manner as it is defcribed by that academician. Our 
bodily labour was the fame ; and his defcription of the view from 
the top of the mountain is fo exactly true, that I need only copy 
it to exprefs my ideas. We even faw the falcons he mentions, 
and which he made fome unfuccefsfnl attempts to kill. The 
accuracy of his account gave us great pleafure, and I fancied I 
fhould gratify the reader by placing it here. 
AVASAXA. 
<f This mountain is fituated about fifteen leagues from Tornea*, 
“ on the margin of the river, from which the accefs to it is not 
“ very eafy. The afcent lies through a foreft, reaching up nearly 
to its middle. The foreft itfelf is interrupted by a great aggre- 
“ gate 
