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sirable to discover some means of eradi- 

 cating the Bog-moss. 



The reason why the marshes prove bar- 

 ren, after the grass has been mown, is easily 

 explained by considering the nature of the 

 rushy plants, whose roots extend them- 

 selves gradually upwards, and choke the 

 Carices and other grasses, when the latter 

 are cut down to the ground, so that their 

 roots wither. Might this evil be cured by 

 burning ? 



I wondered that the Laplanders here- 

 abouts had not built a score of small houses, 

 lofty enough at least to be entered in an up- 

 right posture, as they have such abundance 

 of wood at hand. On my expressing my 

 surprise at this, they answered : " In sum- 

 mer we are in one spot, in vrinter at an- 

 other, perhaps twenty miles distant, where 

 we can find moss for our reindeer.'' I asked 

 " why they did not collect this moss in the 

 summer, that they might have a supply of 

 it during the winter' frosts?" They replied, 

 that they give their whole attention to fish- 



