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nana, which are printed in a more finished 

 state in the Flora Lapponka, ed. 2. I70 

 and 274.) 



June 11. 



Being Sunday, and a day of continued 

 rain, I remained at Umoea. 



June 12. 



I took my departure very early in the 

 morning. The weather was so hazy I could 

 not see the distance of half a gun-shot be- 

 fore me. I wandered along in a perpetual 

 mist, which made the grass as wet as if it 

 had rained. The sun appeared quite dim, 

 wading as it were through the clouds. By 

 nine o'clock the mists began to disperse, 

 and the sun shone forth. The Spruce Fir 

 (Pinus Abies), hitherto of an uniform dark 

 green, now began to put forth its lighter- 

 coloured buds, a welcome sign of advan- 

 cing summer*. 



* LinnEBLis, in the Amoenitates AcademiccB, says the 

 Swedish summer is in its highest beauty when " the 

 fresh shoots of the fir illuminate the woods.'* 



