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the horizon*. In winter the sun does not 

 rise above the horizon, but at the solstice 

 it becomes visible. Could it be seen from 

 the pole? 



The young women in Finland have much 

 more swelling bosoms than those of Lap- 

 land ; the latter accord best with the de- 

 scription of the poet, 



" Qiiales cruda viro pnella servat." 



{Mart. lib. 8. ep. 63.) 



* King Charles the Eleventh, on his visit toTornea 

 in 1694, was accompanied by Count G. Douglas the 

 Lord Lieutenant, Count Piper Counsellor of Chan- 

 cery, J. Höghusen Counsellor of the Board of War, 

 and some other learned men, and in the night be- 

 tween the 13th and 14th of June saw, from the belfry 

 of the church, the midnight sun, at that time visible 

 there to a person placed on such an elevation. The 

 year following. Professors Bilberg and Spole were 

 sent to Tornea to repeat these observations. The royal 

 visit to Tornea was commemorated by a medal struck 

 on the occasion, having on one side the bust of the 

 king; on the reverse, a representation of the sun half 

 above the horizon, with this motto. Soli mocciduo Sol 

 olv'ms alter ; and beneath. Iter Regis ad Botniam Oc- 

 cidentaleni) Mense Junio 1 694. 

 VOL. II. L 



