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or Tornberget, upon whose summit the 

 Laplanders used, in ancient times, to offer 

 sacrifice, for the success of their herds of 

 reindeer. The mountain still shows traces 

 of fire. At the western end of this lake a 

 Laplander resided, and from thence it was 

 scarcely a quarter of a mile by land to the 

 next lake, called Skalk, where as I passed 

 near a waterfall, I found the Bai'barea and 

 Pedicnlarh, both already mentioned, also 

 the Asphodel (Tofieidia paliistris, Fl. Brit.) 

 and the little Astragalus, see p. 159- 



When I came to the lake Skalk in the 

 way towards Kiomitis, about a mile short 

 of the last-mentioned place, I was much 

 struck with an opening between the hills to 

 the north-west, through which appeared a 

 range of mountains, from ten to twenty 

 miles distant, as white as the clouds, and 

 seeming not above a mile from the spot 

 where I stood. Their summits reached the 

 clouds, and indeed they resembled a range 

 of white clouds rising from the horizon. 

 They recalled to my mind the frontispiece 



