CLIMATE. 



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depended upon to a day, even to a week, but it gives an idea 

 of what time they generally appear. 



The reader, if he chooses, will find a description of a 

 spring and summer in Lapland in my little work bearing 

 that title ; and as for the winter there, it would require a 

 much greater share of fortitude than I possess to shut myself 

 up for seven months with nothing to do and nothing to 

 gaze on but a dreary waste of snow, merely to see what a 

 Lapland winter was like. At Yardohuus, the most nor- 

 therly fortress in the world, hard by the North Cape, the 

 sun never sinks below the horizon from May 21st to the 

 21st July, and is never seen from the middle of November 

 till the end of January. 



In Tornea the longest day is 21 J hours, the shortest but 



