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utmoft kindnefs during the illnefs that detained them. They de¬ 
termined to exhibit a {how, which they conceived would draw 
the Laplanders from all quarters to this place, and which feemed 
calculated to make on the minds of this fimple people a great 
impreffion. This was, to mount an air balloon. I know not 
what effect this objed might produce on the natives, but I have 
reafon to fuppofe that the concourfe was not great. At their de¬ 
parture they wrote down in the regifter their names, with the 
following apoflrophe :—“ Stranger, whoever thou art, that viflteft 
“ thefe remote regions of the North, return to thy native country, 
“ and acknowledge that philanthropy is taught amidft civilized 
“ nations, but pradifed where theories of fcience never come.” 
On the oppofite page of the book I again found the name of 
Mr. Vefvrotti, who had come here to let the Laplanders know, 
as he had before informed the Finlanders, in a kind of Franco- 
Latin, that he had heretofore been prefident of the parliament of 
Dijon. 
“ Libertatem qurerens feditionifque theatrum fugiens, hie fuit, 
“ die 15 °Martii, anno 1792.” 
“ Carolus Richard de Vefvrotti, Dijionenfis (of Dijon) prasfes 
“ in fuprema rationum curie Burgundias.” 
The minider of Enontekis was a man of learning, and em¬ 
ployed what leifure he has from his padoral duties, in {fatidical 
and phyfiological invedigations. He has made large colledions in 
natural hidory of all kinds : he has alfo written a little book, 
containing anfwers to a number of queries, made by a Swedifh 
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