THROUGH LAPLAND. 
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boat as near as we could to the mount Keimio-tunduri, which we 
immediately began to climb. The afcent is extremely difficult 
and troublefome, in as much as we had not only to climb, but 
to open a paffage wdth our hands acrofs woods w hich nobody per¬ 
haps ever penetrated before, at lead: certainly not from motives of 
amufement. At laft we came to a part of the mountain which is 
bare of trees, where we found, with fome concern, that it was im» 
poffible for us to get to mount Pallas, by reafon of fwamps and 
fmall lakes, wffiich infulated the mountain, and which were them- 
felves fecluded from one another by impaffable marfhes. At the 
top of Keimio we had all around under our eye a vaft profped:, 
which afforded us a moft perfect idea of the country. To¬ 
wards the eaft and w T eft, the furface is covered with fmall hills as 
far as the eye can reach, W'hofe tops feemed to mix with the fkies 
at the horizon; northw r ard, mount Pallas lifts his head far above 
the other objects, and looks dowm upon all the adjacent moun¬ 
tains : but the view towards the fouth prefented an immenfe tract 
of country wholly inacceffible and impenetrable to man, confifting 
of a difmal and dreary extent of fwamps and marfhy foil. 
The whole of what we faw was more calculated to intereft a 
geographer than a painter, who could perceive very little that 
would fuit the purpofes of his art. Between us and mount Pallas 
lay a fmall lake, on wffiofe furface the ice had not yet entirely 
difappeared : being fituated in the bottom ol the valley, it w T as 
ffreened from the folar rays, and as it was probably formed of 
fnow water, which had run down from the mountains, it might 
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