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THE LAPLAND ALTS. 32;|. 



colour, exactly like water poured into q, 

 vessel previously used for milk. This ap- 

 pearance arose merely from its extreme 

 purity, levity, and consequent transparency. 

 It was cooler than the water fiowinir from 

 the snow. 



Not far from this lake, on the left, upon 

 the side of the mountain called Kaitsoni- 

 iinni, near a rivulet, I picked up a curious 

 stone or radiated^wor, of a blueish colour, 

 composed of square parts (probably zeolite). 

 In the evening it rained, but I observed 

 the Papilionoidcs with purple spots {SphirLV 

 F'dipendulct). 



The stones hereabouts were mostly fissile, 

 horny ; some black and aluminous, but 

 generally horny and spontaneously decom- 

 posing, with silvery talc, rarely any quartz. 



July 11. 



We rose early this morning, and after 

 walking a quarter of a mile arrived at the 

 lofty icy mountain. This is indeed of a 

 very great elevation, and covered with 



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