2 A SPUING AND SUMMER IN LAPLAND. 



vegetation of every description; and it is the 

 diversity of scenery which meets the traveller's 

 eye at every turn, that gives a charm to wan- 

 dering through these northern climes. Still, rich 

 as it is in natural productions, rich as it is in 

 every branch of its fauna, this is a land compara- 

 tively but little known to the British traveller ; 

 whilst almost every other part of the European 

 ''continent) whose natural beauties can scarcely sur- 

 pass this magnificent country in the summer, are 

 as well known to the English tourist as the woods 

 and glades of his own merry England. 



Scarcely any other country in Europe possesses 

 so many attractions to the naturalist as Scandi- 

 navia, for the varied nature of the landscape, with 

 so few inhabitants scattered over its surface, marks 

 it as a fitting home for such of the rarer species of 

 quadruped and bird as delight in solitude and 

 retirement ; while its vast extent of coast, its 

 magnificent rivers, and innumerable inland lakes 

 must render it one of the greatest interest to 

 the ichthyologist. Most of the larger and wilder 

 species of the European mammalia are to be met 

 with in one part or another of this immense con- 

 tinent. The elk finds shelter in the midland 

 forests ; the reindeer on the northern fells ; the 

 bear, the lynx, the glutton, the wolf, and the 

 Arctic fox, are no strangers in the midland and 



