118 LYCKSELE LAPLAND. 



as follows. Under the soil a brown sand, 

 next to it some fathoms depth of white, 

 below which were two fathoms of a purple 

 sand, which lay upon small stones, and 

 those upon larger ones on a level with the 

 water. 



The Little Eared Grebe {Colymhus 

 auritus) was here occasionally quite black, 

 or black with white spots under the wings. 

 There was great abundance of Wild Ducks, 

 those birds abounding as much on this side 

 of Lycksele as on the other. 



This part of the country is beautifully 

 diversified with hills and valleys, clothed 

 with forests of birch intermixed with fir, 

 which were now reflected by the calm sur- 

 face of the water. 



In the force or water-fall of Gransele are 

 thirteen small islands. 



I noticed on both sides of the river se- 

 veral summer huts of the Laplanders, in 

 which they reside, for a short time toge^ 

 ther, during that season. A Laplander 

 never remains more than a week on one 



