CLOUDBERRY. 



the luscious cloudberry, (rubus chamcemorus^) are found 

 fast by the margin of the snow, as the limit of vege- 

 tation. The first of these is a very pleasant fruit ; but 

 even in the bleakest parts of Scotland it is rare, and it 

 is not very plentiful even in Lapland ; but the cloud- 

 berry is more abundant, and it is much better. The 

 fruit is single, upon the top of a footstalk, and in 

 form, size, and colour, it is not unlike the mulberry, 

 after which it is partly named ; but in flavour, taking 

 the place where it is found into consideration, it is 

 superior to all the mulberries that ever grew. 



At this elevation, the amphitheatre around the base 

 of the mountain begins to appear : its woods and 

 its pools, its green dells and its brown heaths, come 

 out with a very graphic and pleasant effect ; and as one 

 toils along the remainder of the ascent, one is glad 

 occasionally to turn and remark its changes. 



The summit is gained at last. It is midsummer, 

 and yet the stones are frozen to the ground, in every 

 place where they do not feel the influence of the sun. 

 Here, an atmospheric load to a considerable amount is 

 removed. It is usually estimated, that when a man 

 of the ordinary size stands at the level of the sea, the 

 pressure of the atmosphere upon the surface of his 

 body, is about fourteen tons and a half; and that when 

 he gains an elevation of little more than four thousand 

 feet, about two tons of this pressure is taken off. It is 

 true that, generally speaking, the pressure is internal 

 as well as external, and that where it is not, the 

 external pressure gives tone to the system ; for one 

 feels relaxed in warm weather before rain, when the 

 barometer is low. But when one ascends a mountain, 



