130 TORNKA. 



does not appear, nor is it mentioned in JF7. 

 Lapp.) 



I reached Tornea by three o'clock. 



TORNE A. 



August 4. 



A reindeer may be driven in a carriage 

 twelve (Swedish) miles in a day, or, at the 

 utmost, fifteen ; but the animal is generally 

 killed immediately afterwards with the Lap- 

 landers' s]>ears, and eaten. 



The Laplanders are perhaps so called 

 from the (Swedish) word lappa, to sew or 

 patch together, because their garments 

 usually answer to that description. 



The degree of cold is certainly greater on 

 the alps than in less elevated regions ; for 

 instance, it is colder in Jämtland than at 

 Tornea, though the former lies about one 

 hundred miles further south. Thus it 

 appears that the cause of the severity of 

 the cold does not depend so much on the 

 approach towards the pole, as on the ele- 



