THROUGH LAPLAND, 
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general are moft interefting to a curious traveller, becaufe they are 
not fo often vifited, and both the country and the people are lefs 
known ; whereas the larger rivers are more frequented, efpecially 
in winter, when they ferve as a high road for thofe that come 
from Muonionifca and Tornea. Hence the natives that live near 
thefe rivers become familiar with ftrangers, and cannot be viewed 
fo much in their own natural character, as thofe who are merely 
acquainted with the objects that belong to thcmfelvcs and their 
country. The paffage northward on the Muonio, from Muonio¬ 
nifca to Enonteki, is very fimilar to that from Kengis to Muonio¬ 
nifca, or to that from Upper Tornea to Kengis. 
Pallajovenio is a fettlement of Finlanders, confifting of about 
four or five families. The merchants of Tornea have built a fmall 
place, which confiffs of a room, w here they can make a fire, and 
refrefh themfelves, as they pafs through this colony during the 
winter, in their way to the fairs. The people of Pallajovenio ap¬ 
peared to be much at their eafe; their dwellings feemed to be 
comfortable and neat, and different from thofe of the other pea- 
fants of this country. 
We refrefhed ourfelves at this place, and taking our departure, 
proceeded on the river Muonio to where it joins the Pallojoki, 
which we afcended in order to get to Lappajervi, This paffage, 
if performed in a ftraight line, w T ould not be above tw elve miles, 
but owing to the windings of the river, it made a journey of more 
than thirty. The river Pallojoki prefented to us difficulties of a 
kind we had not experienced during the whole of our expedition. 
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