THROUGH FINLAND. 
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CHAPTER XXIX. 
The Travellers henceforth proceed hy Water—Strong Currents of the 
Rivers, occajioncd hy Cataraids—Pafs by a Salmon-Fijhery : man¬ 
ner of eating Salmon raw—Difficulty of navigating thofe Rivers — 
Stages on this Journey—Pafs the Ardiic Polar Circle, near the 
Cataradfs of Kattila Kojki—A fiort Paffage hy Land — Pello, and 
Mount Kittis remarkable for Maupertuiss Afronomical Obferva- 
tlons — Mr. Swam berg's Remarks on the Labours of Maupertuis ; 
from which it appears, that his Obfervations are not to be depended 
on—Method of obtaining the Eggs of the Mergus Merganfor — 
From Kardis to Kengis—Arrival at Kengis, and HofpitalityJhewn 
by an Infpedlor of the Mines—A Stone with very ancient Infcrip- 
tions taken Notice of by Maupertuis—Plants and Infedls. 
HF^HE wind was quite fair, and made our boat proceed with 
greater expedition. Our Finlandifh boatmen, unwilling to 
lofe fo favourable a moment for repofmg their arms, put up a 
fmall fail, which ferved to force us againft the current with a ve¬ 
locity fufficient to carry us on at the rate of five miles an hour. 
The boat was fo fmall that it could hold but four perfons in all, 
and the conflict of the wind in furmounting the refinance of the 
current, which was the effed of catarads, produced fuch a fwell 
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