20 A JOURNEY TO FINMARK. 



we tried a bathe in the Fjord, but the water there was only 

 at 48° (7*^ R.)- ^^^ ^'^*'^ assured, however, that precisely 

 that summer when we were there (1860) was particularly 

 unfavourable and rainy ; in 1859, they had had four weeks' 

 consecutively of quite bright, warm weather. The heat, 

 however, in Altenthal is never very great, since it is mo- 

 derated by the sea breeze; neither is it ever very cold there 

 in winter, and a temperature of 13° — 24° below zero (20° — 

 25° R.) is of rare occurrence. The climate of the interior 

 of Finmark is very different indeed, as, for instance, at Kau- 

 tokeino, where not unfrequently quicksilver freezes in winter, 

 and in July a tropical heat often prevails. There the prin- 

 cipal masses of snow do not disappear till the middle of 

 June, then everything comes forward with great rapidity, 

 since not unfrequently night frosts occur, and snow falls 

 again in the middle of August. 



On the 10th of August we left Bossekop, and took the 

 same way back to Throndhjem by the small steamer ^' Prinds 

 Gustav." From here we sent the bulk of our luggage di- 

 rect to Hamburg, and made an extremely pleasant land 

 journey in the small two-wheeled carrjols over the Dovrefjeld 

 to Christiania, which distance one can accompHsh quite 

 easily in four days. But instead of doing this, we remained 

 two days at the station, Fogstuen, on the Dovrefjeld, and 

 although the season was already well advanced, we believe 

 that a Lepidopterologist might find there very good collect- 

 ing grounds. We were confirmed in this when the friendly 

 Herr Lector Esmark showed us in the University Collection 

 at Christiania several very scarce Lepidoptera, which came 

 from Dovre. This gentleman had also collected near the 

 Mjosen Lake, about 45 English miles from Christiania, 

 Chionobas Jutta, Hiibner, and Herr Gartner Moe, a fresh 

 specimen of Dasypolia Templi, Thun., which he declared he 



