124 LYCKSELE LAPLAND. 



are only seen near the shores of the waters. 

 Fir trees were rather thinly scattered, but 

 they were extremely lofty, towering up to 

 the clouds. Here were spacious tracts pro- 

 ducing the finest timber I ever beheld. 

 The ground was clothed with Ling, Red 

 Whortle-berries (Vaccinium Vitis Idaa), 

 and mosses. In such parts as were rather 

 low grew smaller firs, amongst abundance 

 of birch, the ground there also producing 

 Red Whortle-berries, as well as the com- 

 mon black kind {Vaccinium Myrtillus)^ 

 with PoJijtrichum (comminie). On the dry 

 hills, which most abounded with large pines, 

 the finest timber was strewed around, felled 

 by the force of the tempests, lying in all 

 directions, so as to render the country in 

 some places almost impenetrable. I seemed 

 to have reached the residence of Pan him- 

 self, and shall now describe the huts in 

 which his subjects the Laplanders con- 

 trive to resist the rigours of their native 

 climate. 



