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calcareous spar also occur, as well as a coarse Asbestos con- 

 taining Epidote. 



The ascent to the mines afforded us many good plants, com- 

 prising many we had previously found. Among the new 

 ones, were Pyrola rotimd'tfoUa and secuncla, Saxifraga cernua, 

 Veronica saxatilis, Gentiana nivalis^ &c. &c. Linnwa a,ndiMen- 

 ziesia completely cover the ground in many places ; indeed the 

 latter supplies here the place of the Ericw, of which we have 

 only met with one {Calluna vulgaris), and that very sparingly. 



9nth. — To-day we crossed the upper part of the Fiord, and 

 rambled up the banks of a river which comes down from a 

 lake a few miles up the valley. A short distance from its 

 mouth is a tolerably large and very picturesque cataract, close 

 to which I gathered, for the first time in my life, that beautiful 

 plant Astragalus alpinus. Hieraciimi alpinum ? was also 

 plentiful, and the more shaded and mossy parts of the wood 

 abounded with Pgrola secimda and Pedlcnlaris Lapponica, with 

 here and there a specimen of Goodyera repens. Almost every 

 flowering plant was covered with Geometra casiata, which rose 

 in clouds at evei'y step we took. The musquitoes, as usual, 

 were very numerous and troublesome. In dryer and more 

 open places among dead leaves, &;c., a species of Blatta (B. 

 Lapponica ?) was abundant. It runs actively, and flies from 

 bush to bush. 



28th, 29tk and SOt/i. — We rambled about the neighbourhood 

 in different directions, and obtained some plants and insects, 

 but nothing very rare. On the banks of a little stream above 

 the mines, which abounds in willows, is a large rock of a 

 porous soft limestone, containing abundance of green mica. 

 From the leaves of the willows I got a few specimens of a fine 

 scarlet and black Ckrgsotnela? Another small greenish species 

 was plentiful, accompanied by its larvae, which have several 

 white lateral tentacula drawn in when touched. The highest 

 rocks were covered with Diapensia Lapponica and Arbutus 

 alpina, the latter with ripe fruit. 



3\st, Sundag. — Mr. Crowe read prayers to the English 

 connected with the mines, there being no church of any kind 

 nearer than Talvig, a distance of twelve or fifteen miles. 

 While we were thus engaged a party of ladies arrived from 

 Tromsoe, consisting of the Amptmaninde (the Lady of the 

 Ampman, of Finmark), and two relatives, one of whom. 



