116 LULEAN LAPLAXD. 



onr linen so as to render it quite black. It 

 was to no purpose to attempt to drive them 

 away. (See v. 1. 208.) 



I visited the Laxholnis, islands so called 

 from the salmon iishery. Here the Com- 

 mon Salmon (Sabno Salar, named Lax by 

 the Swedes,) is found with the under jaw 

 occasionally hooked, which variety is term- 

 ed Krokla.v, or Hooked Salmon. I inquired 

 whether this hooked kind was esteemed a 

 distinct species, or whether a difference 

 arising from age ; to both which questions 

 I was answered in the negative. I was 

 shown fish of the smallest size, which had 

 in proportion as large a hook to the lower 

 jaw as the largest. Bonge has therefore 

 fallen into an error in his dissertation upon 

 salmon. (Daniel Bonge, Dissertatio dt 

 Sahnonum natura, eorumque apud Ostro- 

 hothnienses piscatione, UpsaL 1730. 4to. 

 under the presidency of Professor Roberg, 

 with wooden cuts.) I inquired whether 

 the hooked salmon were furnished with roe 

 or with milt. I was answered that they 



