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TRAVELS 
could defire in the mild and rural ftyle. As we approached clofe 
to the mountain we came upon a large lake which forms the 
i'ource of the river. This lake is intercepted, however, by a ca¬ 
taract of very confiderable length, fo incumbered with {tones, 
that fcarcely an empty boat could have proceeded upon it. The 
neceffities of thefe people impelled them to make an attempt to 
remove fome of the {tones in this lake, and to turn them to one 
fide for the purpofe of deepening the water in the middle, and fo 
to facilitate the pafiage of their fifhing-boats. We were allured, 
that the firft perfons who fucceeded in furmounting the obftacles 
which feparated the navigable part of this river from the lake, 
had each of them, after fifteen days fifhing, four or five barrels of 
fifh for his own fhare. 
Mount Pallas, at a diftance, has a very fallacious appearance, 
feeming to be of no confiderable fize, but becomes more impofmg 
in proportion as you approach it. The parfon informed us, that the 
Finlanders have fix words to exprefs a mountain, each of which 
ferves to denote fome diftin&ive quality in the objeCt; viz. lfit, 
Sadio , which fignifies a fmall rifing ground, furnifiied with wood ; 
2dly, Rova, one of a more confiderable eminence, covered with 
ftones; 3dly, VKara, a hill with a tuft of trees ; 4thly, Kero, a 
large hill wdth brufhwood here and there on the furface ; 5thly, 
Tunduri, denoting a high naked mountain; and alfo a Gth name, 
which is Selke, fignilying a long hill, without any allufion to its 
height. 
After doubling certain points and promontories, we rowed the 
boat 
