THROUGH LAPLAND. 
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Our journey from Enontekis to Tornea lay always along the 
banks of rivers : we paffed on to Muonionifca, where we faw our 
friend the prieft, and our excellent pilot Simon. We vifited our 
acquaintances at the different places we came to, for inftance, at 
Kengis and Upper Tornea, where we paid our refpedts to the mi- 
nifter of the parifh, and his amiable daughters. At Tornea we did 
not fail to wait on our friends, the redtor and the merchants,, 
who confidered us prodigious travellers : and at laft we made a 
triumphant entry into Uleaborg, where we difplayed to our fcru- 
pulous friends, the fhells, fponges, birds, and other natural curiofi- 
ties we had collected, in proof of our having really been at the 
North Cape, the fartheft extremity of Europe. 
CONCLUSION. 
ee THUS ends a courle,” fays Reignard, in conclufion of his 
Journey to Lapland, “ which I would not but have made for all 
“ the gold in the world, and which I would not for all the gold in 
“ the world make over again.” The French traveller could not, 
in my mind, have drawn a jufter picture of his character, and the 
fpirit in which he undertook his diftant travels, than is exhibited 
in this enigmatical mode of expreffion. 
Curiofity is either the effect of felf-intereff, infpiring a defire of 
learning what may be ufeful; or of “ pride, which makes us am- 
(e bitious of knowing fomething unknown to others.” Does not 
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