LYCKSELE LAPLAND. IQl 



Close to the road hung the under jaw of 

 a Horse, having six fore teeth, much worn 

 and blunted, two canine teeth, and at a 

 distance from the latter twelve grinders, 

 six on each side. If I knew how many 

 teeth and of what peculiar form, as well as 

 how many udders, and where situated, each 

 animal has, I should perhaps be able to 

 contrive a most natural methodical arrange- 

 ment of quadrupeds*. 



I could not help remarking that the very 

 best fields of this part of the country, in 

 which from six to ten barns commonly 

 stood, were almost entirely occupied with 

 turfy hillocks producing nothing but Hair- 

 moss, Poli/frichum, and that quite dried 

 up. Some of the barns were evidently in 

 a decayed state ; which made me suspect 

 this condition of the land to be an increas- 

 ing evil, and that it had formerly been 

 more productive than at present. Indeed 



* Here the Linnaean system of Mammalia seems 

 first to have occurred to the mind of its author. 



