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TRAVELS 
CHAPTER IV, 
Departure from Muonionifca, July the firfl—Fxceffive Heat—Travel 
by Night—A Settlement called Pallajovenio — Proper Boundary of 
Lapland—Miffake of Travellers and Geographers concerning Lap- 
land—Face of the Country between Muonionifca and Pallajovenio, 
mid thence to Kautokeino—The fmall Rivers of the Country offer 
more Novelty than the greater ones-—Difficulties arijing from fhal- 
low Water—The Rein-deer Mofs (Lichen rangiferinus, Linn.} 
covering the whole Surface of the Ground: Vegetation near it —» 
Arrival at Lappajervi—Mufquetoes exceedingly troublefome—Fires 
and Smoke the moff effectual P rote diion agahijl them—Some Lap- 
land Fflier men—Their Habitations—A Night paffed with thefe 
People, and Accommodation afforded. 
"W^TTE let off from Muonionifca on the firft day of July, about 
* * ten o’clock at night. The atmofphere was heated to a 
degree nearly fuffocating throughout the whole of the day. The 
thermometer of Celfius fhewed at noon 2y degrees; at midnight 
it fell down to 19 degrees. The water in the rivers and lakes was 
clear and limpid, and we fhould gladly have bathed ourfelves, had 
we not been deterred from fuch a refolution by the mufquetoes, 
who would have devoured us alive, if we had expofed ourfelves 
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