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fours. Remaining confhmtly in the fame attitude, he begins to 
dance, and by his leaps and jumps, Rudies to keep time with the 
mufic, which is extremely gothic, and which the reader will find 
inferted in the Appendix. The execution of this dance is attend¬ 
ed with great labour and fatigue, infomuch that it is very dif¬ 
ficult for the peafant to go on with it above three or four mi¬ 
nutes, without falling into the moft violent perfpiration. It is 
however a fort of exercife which is good for {Lengthening the 
mufcles of the arms, and therefore highly ufeful to the natives of 
this country, whofe laborious exertions in afcending the cataracts 
in fummer require very great vigour and mufcular power. Ad- 
drefs and bodily flrength are the qualities in the higheft repute 
among the peafantry in this part of Weftrobothnia; and befides 
this dance, they have other exercifes which demand a lurprifing 
degree of activity and firmnefs in their limbs. 
While we fat in our tent on the fummit of the hill, a number 
of Finlandifh girls, induced by curiofity to fee us, furrounded the 
tent. We foon recommended ourfelves to their acquaintance, 
and invited the handfomeft of them to enter the tent; an invita¬ 
tion which they were not fhy of accepting. We offered them 
wine, but they difliked it; punch, but they had no greater relifli 
for it: we ordered them beer, but they could as' little drink this. 
At length we found out that thofe girls were accuftomed to no 
other beverage than milk and water. There was among them a 
native of Kollare, who merited a more than ordinary fhare of our 
attention, and who immediately attracted our notice by her fix¬ 
ture, 
