TRAVELS 
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erratic but fixed Laplanders, or rather a Finnifli colony eflablifhed 
in Lapland. Thefe inhabitants of Kintafari preferve all the ori¬ 
ginal boldnefs of character, force and activity, by which the Fins 
are diffcinguifhed; whereas the unfettled and wandering Lap¬ 
landers are remarkable for floth and dirt. 
Having returned to the river Pepojovaivi, we fell down by that 
ftream to Kautokeino, where it empties itfelf into the river Alten, 
after a courfe of forty Englifh miles from the place where we fet 
out. The river Pepojovaivi is every where intercepted by lakes, 
or, more properly fpeaking, it often fpreads and makes lakes, 
which, being fringed with birch and fir-trees, offered the mod 
pleafing views, and rendered our voyage very interefling and agree¬ 
able. We w r ere aflonifhed at the incredible quantity of fifla.es 
with which thofe lakes abound, and which leap every inflant to 
catch infects above the furface of the water. Our Laplanders 
themfelves were furprifed at their abundance, and agreed, on their 
return, to come there and let down their torn and ragged nets. 
The cataracts of the river Pepojovaivi were not at all confiderable, 
nor were they in the leafl dangerous. Our good Finlanders, and 
above all our pilot Simon of Kollare, would not have thought it 
worth while to mention fuch a voyage : but it was a very arduous 
undertaking for our Laplanders, who found themfelves under em- 
barraffments at every turn. Being inured to the navigation of ca¬ 
taracts, we could encounter their difficulties and dangers without 
emotion, and were of courfe more fitted to extricate our company 
out of any untoward circumflance than the Laplanders, who, 
without 
