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Spring, whose cheering influence on man and 

 all living nature I had so lately experienced 

 in the beginning of my journey, seemed 

 an alien here. The declinino- sun never 

 disappeared sufficiently to allow any cool- 

 ing shade, and by climbing to the more 

 elevated parts of these lofty mountains, I 

 could see it at midnight above the horizon. 

 When I cast my eyes over the grass and% 

 herbage, there were few objects I had seen 

 before, so that all nature was alike strange 

 to me. I sat down to collect and describe 

 these vegetable rarities, while the time 

 passed unperceived away, and my inter- 

 preter was obliged to remind me that we 

 had still five or six miles to go to the 

 nearest Laplander, and that if we had a 

 mind for any rein-deer meat, we ought to 

 bestir ourselves quickly. We proceeded 

 therefore up and down the snowy hills, 

 sometimes passing along their precipitous 

 sides, which was the most difficult travel- 

 ling of all, and for many a long way we 

 walked over heaps of stones. About the 

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