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TRAVELS 
CHAPTER III. 
Fxcurjion from Muonionifca to Mount Pallas, and Keimio-Twiduri 
—Rivers Muonio and Jeres — P leaf fig Scenery about the latter — 
Different Terms of the Finlanders for a Mountain , according to 
Its peculiar Quality—Profpedi from Kelmlo-Tundurl—Mount Pal¬ 
las Inaccejfble—Face of the Country—Snow on Mount Pallas, 
and Ice on a Lake—Some Objedls in Natural Hlfory colledled. 
A DAY and a night fpent at Muonionifca ferved to recover 
^ us from the fatigue of our late journey, and the following 
morning we found ourfelves difpofed to make an excurfion into 
the country. Our honeft parfon was our guide in this expedition. 
He made an excellent fellow traveller, accommodated himfelf to 
every thing ; and what rendered him Rill more agreeable to us, 
was, that we found him by no means a mere novice in the pur- 
fuits of natural hiftory. Dr. Quenzel, who made the fame tour, 
had him for his companion, and inftrudled him in different par¬ 
ticulars : he was, for inlfance, no Rranger to the names of certain 
infedls, fuch as the cocclnella trlfafclata, and the cUreullo aretlcus ; 
in the department of ornithology he knew the motacilla fueclca, 
the turdus rofeus ; and in that of fillies, the falmo alpha. 
We direfted our courfe towards Mount Pallas. The name of 
this 
