ULEABORG TO THE NORTH CAPE. 
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LOCAL OBSERVATIONS. 
Mari. Here is a (mail church for the convenience of the Laplanders 
in winter. No body lives here in fummer. Hence you meet with 
neither houfes nor people till you get dole to Alten. 
Koinosjoki is the name of a river (joki fignifies a river). Here vve quitted 
the river Alten and our boats, to travcrfe the mountains on foot. No 
vefiigc of a human habitation all this way. 
Salvargot : a deferted cottage, where we paiTed the night in the midfl 
of mountains. We again joined the river Alten near the fpot where 
it receives the river Katiojoki. Unlefs you meet with fome people 
that are fithing for falmon, you are obliged either to fvvim acrofs the 
river, or to go up its banks till you find a place which is fordable. 
Lainie is a finall village, where we fiopt before we proceeded to Alten. 
Amen is only the houfe of a merchant, with fome eftablifhment of pca- 
fantry about it. It is fituated on the gulf of Alten Fiord, which is 
an arm of the Frozen Ocean. A quarter of a mile hence (Svved. or 
Nowegian) is Altengaard, which is properly the refidence of the bai¬ 
liff of Norwegian Lapland, and belongs to the government of Dron- 
theim. 
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