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what was necessary, for I had sufficient encumbrances 

 of my own without being the bearer of our provisions 

 into the bargain. The pine trees are more barren of 

 branches on their north sides ; hence the people know 

 by these trees which way the north lies. Brandy is here 

 made from the fir, as well as from the berries of the 

 mountain ash. The Angelica sylvestris is a dainty in 

 great request among the Lapps ; they use its root for 

 the cure of their terrible colic. The common method 

 of the Laplanders for joining broken earthenware is to 

 tie the fragments together with a thread and boil the 

 whole in fresh milk, by which they are cemented to each 

 other. The reindeer milk is very glutinous. 



c July 1. When I came to the lake Skalk in the way 

 towards Kionitis I was much struck with an opening 

 between the hills to the N.W., through which appeared a 

 range of mountains, from ten to twenty miles ' [Swedish] 

 * distant, as white as the clouds, and seeming not above 

 a mile ' [S] ' from the spot where I stood. Their 

 summits reached the clouds, and indeed they resembled 

 a range of white clouds rising from the horizon. They 

 recalled- to my mind the frontispiece of Rudbeck's 

 u Lapponia Illustrata." Mountains upon mountains 

 rose before me in every direction. In one word, I now 

 beheld the Lapland Alps.' [He gives a clever pen-and- 

 ink sketch of the view."] * At Kionitis I rested durino- 



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the whole of Sunday, July 2. Here the beautiful corn 

 was growing in perfection in valleys between the snowy 

 mountains. It had shot up so high as to be laid in some 



