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quitoes made their appearance on board. Tlie following day being Sun- 

 day we landed, intending to walk, but could only climb, so rough and 

 totally pathless was the face of the country. The mountains were 

 covered with a profusion of beautiful flowers, many of them belonging 

 to berry bearing plants. 



25th June. — Got under way in the morning and dredged in 70 to 

 IQO fathoms, procured Pleurotoma nivale, a young specimen oi JSucci- 

 humfusiforme, &c. ; but the weather being very cold and rainy sailed 

 only some 14 or 15 miles, and then anchored in a narrow channel 

 among low islands, — dredged in 4 to 10 fathoms, obtaining JVatica 

 Helicoides and Cochlodesma pro'tenue, living, but nothing else worthy 

 of note. On the 26th the weatlier continued so bad that we were 

 unable to dredge, but sailed about 35 miles to Bodoe, a trading station 

 of more pretensions than any other we had seen since leaving Dron- 

 theim. The following morning I di'edged with the boat for a few hours 

 before getting under way, and obtained numerous shells, consisting of 

 Mangelia turricula and allied forms, Trophons, Admete crispa, and 

 Trichotrojm horealis ; we here first met with Astarte arctica and Mar- 

 <jarita cinerea alive, also a Lyonsia, supposed to be a variety of L. arenosa, 

 Moller. We set sail about noon, the weather and scenery most beautiful. 

 The Loffodden Islands soon came in sight, giving to the distant 

 horizon a sharply serrated outline. We picked up at sea a cask, which 

 proved to be filled with fishermen's buoys, made of glass. The evening 

 being very clear and nearly calm, the younger members of our party 

 went off in the dingey to collect the eggs of sea-fowl from the low 

 islands and rocks which we were passing, and afterwards remained on 

 deck to see the midnight sun begin to rise without having set. The 

 next day (28th) the weather again came on thick, with strong wind, and 

 we anchored near the northern extremity of the West Fiord, as is 

 named the channel which separates the range of the Loffodden Islands 

 from the mainland, and which is much resorted to for its fisheries. 

 We sailed again early on the 29th, and at 2 a.m. on the 30th reached 

 Tromsoe, the first place north of Drontheim which could be called a 

 town, and here we remained two days, one of them being Sunday. It 

 has a very neat and cheerful appearance, the buildings, of course, 

 wooden, and the warehouses built upon posts, over the sea. On the 

 Sunday afternoon many parties canio off to see the yacht ; they were, 

 in general, very well and fashionalily dressed, and proved that the art 

 of the laundi-ess is even here carried (o great perfection. We had 

 entered the province of Finmark, and now first came in contact with 

 the primitive races of Quains or Finns, and Lapps, habited in their 

 quaint costume of deer sldns. The former constitute the resident 



