264 LULEAX LAPLAND. 



Both these wise men concurred in one 

 thing. They could not conceal their won- 

 der that the Royal Academy should ex- 

 pressly have appointed a mere student for 

 the purposes for which I was sent, without 

 considering that there were already as com- 

 petent men resident in the country, who 

 would have undertaken the business. They 

 declared they would either of them have 

 been ready to accept of the charge. In 

 my opinion, however, they would but have 

 exhibited a fresh illustration of the proverb 

 of the ass and the lyre. 



The number of pupils under the care of 

 the gentleman above mentioned at this 

 time amounted to four only. The church 

 is but a small one. 



It IS a practice here with some persons 

 who have the headache, from excessive 

 drinking or any other cause, to hold their 

 foreheads before the fire till they smart 

 violently. Others apply to the temples 

 young shoots of spruce fir bruised. 



Half a mile from the church I gathered 



