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ter of every rock and stone as he passes from one to the other, while 

 the stream shoots by. In favorable weather an angler may easily 

 land a hundred-weight of trout and grayling in a day's sport, the fish 

 running from half a pound to two pounds in weight. The flies sold 

 by the London makers should be supplemented by some of a smaller 

 size for bright weather and clear water; one with a body of yellov 

 silk and grayish-brown wings is said to be very killing. 



The distance from Jockmock to Quickjock, the two principal vil- 

 lages on the route, is about ninety miles, and is performed in three days. 

 Each of these places has a church, a school, and a post-office, and 

 Jockmock is said to have a shop, though we could not find it. They 

 are really collections of small wooden huts, vacant during the summer 

 months, but occupied in the long winter by the Lapps, who then come 

 down from the mountains with their reindeer. Quickjock especially 

 is in a delightful situation, facing a beautiful lake, and sheltered by 

 mountains of noble outlines and grand proportions. At Jockmock 

 there are some fine falls, not unlike the Rheinfalls at Schaffhausen, 

 though in a very different setting. The resting-places or stations 

 between these two villages are not inns in the usual sense of the word, 

 but the houses of the Swedish settlers or immigrants into Lapland, 

 one of which at each settlement is destined for the reception of the 

 occasional guests. 



These settlements consist of two or perhaps four houses, with the 

 necessary out-buildings, and seem generally inhabited by the several 

 members of the same family. Some of them have existed a consid- 

 erable time, and are occupied now by the grandchildren or great- 

 grandchildren of the original settlers. Originally the Government 

 granted free gifts of land, but they have now ceased to do this, and 

 the number of the settlers does not appear to be receiving many addi- 

 tions from outside. The houses usually consist of two or more large 

 rooms on the ground-floor with lofts above, and vast chimney-hearths 

 in one corner, in which the logs of pine, some two or three feet in 

 length, are piled upright when a fire is wanted; being lit, they burn 

 \ip in a few minutes into a roaring' fire which gives out an intense 

 heat. The family live chiefly in the kitchen, and this and the guest- 

 chamber are about twenty or thirty feet square, and furnished with a 

 kind of sofa-bedstead which pulls out so as to afford a sleeping-accom- 

 modation of about five feet six inches by three feet. The kitchen it- 

 self is not over-clean, nor are the personal habits of the people with- 

 out reproach in this respect ; yet the guest-chamber, the linen, and 

 the crockery, leave nothing to be desired. 



The houses are surrounded by a small clearing, where the settlers ' 

 cultivate for their own consumption sufficient oats and other grain, 

 hay, and potatoes. They sow their corn in June, and so rapid is the 

 gi*owth under the influence of the lengthened days that they reap the 

 harvest in six or seven weeks afterward, and sometimes get two crops 



