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to their fury without the protedion of our clothes. We chofe to 
purfue our journey at night, and came to a determination to ob- 
ferve the fame rule in future, and take our reft in the day-time, in 
order to enjoy that temperature of the air which in the night 
feafon is produced by the obliquity of the fun’s rays. We af- 
cended the Muonio until we arrived at the little river of Pallojoki, 
at a fmall diftance from which there is a fettlement, or colony, 
called Pallajovenio. 
This colony is the proper boundary of Lapland towards Tornea ; 
accordingly it is named in the map Tornea Lapmark : therefore 
until you have reached Pallajovenio, you cannot be faid geogra¬ 
phically to have fct foot in Lapland. The whole of that vaft 
trad: of country which comprehends Lulea, Pitea, and Umea, as 
far as Tornea, properly belongs to Weft Bothnia. In this refped 
travellers are greatly miftaken, and fuppofe they have been in 
Lapland when they have got as far as Tornea; whereas Weft 
Bothnia makes an angle more to the north, nearly the diftance of 
two hundred and forty miles beyond Tornea. If a perfon, when 
in Sweden, willies to fee Lapland merely for the credit of having 
vifited that country, he has no occafion to go farther than Afele, 
which is about an hundred miles at moft diftant from Umea, on 
the borders of Angermanland; but if he delires to fee a country 
different from any that he has ever feen, and to contemplate the 
manners of a people unlike, in every particular, to all the inhabi¬ 
tants of Europe, he muft proceed northwards, and leave behind 
him the great towns, and all notions of a civilized ftate of fociety. 
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