ULEABORG TO THE NORTH CAPE. 
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LOCAL OBSERVATIONS. 
Ofver Muonionifca , or Upper Muonionifca. The habitation of a Fin¬ 
lander. There are no boats to be had at this place. The people of 
Muonionifca brought us as far as Reftijoki. 
Keiketfuando : a fmall Finnifh fettlement. The merchants of Tornea have 
built here an apartment with a ijre-place, to flop at in their journeys 
to the fairs in winter. 
Pallajovenio is the fir ft Finnifh colony in Lapland, properly fo called. 
You pafs the frontiers of Oftrobothnia between Keiketfuando and 
Pallajovenio. 
Suontajervi. Here lives a tingle Lapland family, clofe by a lake of the 
fame name (jervi fignifies a lake). No boats are to be had here in 
fummer, becaufe the Laplanders go from home to fifh. 
Lappajervi, a Lapland fettlement, about half a mile (Swed.) in the inte¬ 
rior of the country, on the right of the river. No boats to be had. 
Pallojervi , a lake without any habitation near it. 
K'mtafari , an itland in the lake of Pallojervi, without any permanent 
habitation. Some Laplanders occafionally flay there during the fibb¬ 
ing feafon. 
Reftijoki : the name of the river which flows into the lake of Pallojervi. 
A defert country. We fell in with fome wandering Laplanders on 
the right bank of the river. You are obliged to go on foot, 
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