THROUGH FINLAND. 
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CHAPTER XXX. 
Stay at Kengis—'Entertainment given by the Infpedlor—The Bear- 
Dance a very fatiguing fort of Amufement•—Vifit from fome young 
Women of the Neighbourhood; among them one, a Native of Kol- 
lare, of a furprifing Degree of bodily Strength—Separation of the 
Travellers—The Author and another Gentleman alone proceed 
Northward—Geographical Notice on the River Tornea. 
r jOHE infpedlor of the founderies at Kengis fpared no expence 
that could contribute to render our flay at this place agree¬ 
able to us. He thought nothing in his houfe too coffly for our 
entertainment: he affembled the peafants to fhew us their danc¬ 
ing and the genius of their mufic; and on Sunday he treated our 
party with punch and liqueurs in a handfome little tent, which he 
had eredled on a fmall eminence under his Italian poplars. 
Among the different dances exhibited by the peafants on this 
occafion, there was one which feemed particularly curious; it is 
called, in the language of the country, the bear s-dance. A pea- 
fant refts his hands upon the ground, and at the fame time fup- 
ports himfelf on his legs, fo as to keep his body in a horizontal 
pofition, like the bear, or any other animal, when it walks on all 
fours. 
