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plant called Tcitgrass, or Pinguicula, with 

 its most curiously constructed flower. 

 When the inhabitants of these parts once 

 procure this plant, they avail themselves 

 of it during the whole year ; for they pre- 

 serve it dried through the winter, and use it 

 as a kind of rennet till the return of spring. 



Here also I learned another preparation 

 of milk. After cheese is made, the whey 

 is boiled and skimmed, which operation is 

 repeated till a sediment forms as thick as 

 flummery. This is afterwards dried, and 

 kept in casks for use. It makes an ingre- 

 dient in bread, and is called Mesosmor. 



The fire-places here were furnished with 

 a regular apparatus for boiling the kettle. 

 The Laplanders in general content them- 

 selves for this purpose with a large stick, 

 which they place obliquely in the ground, 

 so as to lean over the fire, and on which 

 they suspend either a kettle or a fish ; but 

 here they have adopted quite another 

 mode. 



