2S THE LAPLAN'D ALPS. 



ther. Their shoes indeed are mended, as 

 well as made, with it. This last busmess 

 fells to the lot of the women. The leather 

 is purchased. 



A good ox may be bought in Norway 

 for three rix-dollars ; a female reindeer for 

 one rix-dollar ; a castrated male for from 

 twelve to eighteen dollars, silver coin ; and , 

 a fawn is worth from twelve to eighteen 

 dollars of copper money. Three reindeer, 

 therefore, are but equal to the value of a 

 common ox. 



I left this place in the evening, proceed- 

 ing on ray journev on foot, and walking all 

 night long, till three o'clock in the after- 

 noon of the following day. Thus I walked 

 six miles at a stretch, before I arrived at 

 another Lapland hut. 



Nothing occurred particularly worth no- 

 ticing by the way, except an Andromeda 

 (tetragona) with quadrangular shoots, and 



