moon was ruling high in * otoudteB sky us Uue 

 as sfe^ Aft snow on the river glistening iw its soft 

 if nfflkw of diamonds w 

 ft^s a loi^f aoM--U^ Ingh 

 COTOT^I mount^ius ftoinibg OT the rirw, w for 

 tke wbote ^p^w^noe of tb oountiy irs ftsibe- 

 ax\d inoroi na(g(Qd M wad us first 

 ahrwrs mosl Iftating^ so my first 



night in Lwk^LapJandiiin long be remembered 



iron foundry here bdongiiig to the great QeUiTare 

 mine^ TrhiA Ke about one Irandred milo$ to the 

 north, and as I had an introdadion to the manager 

 ^ire had no diffi^i% in getting horses for the first 

 twdre miles from here. Two days more of the 

 same monotonous tnrceDing brought us to lock- 

 mock, irhkh place ire did not reach until the 

 morning of the 12th, fear ire met with a most 

 unaccommodating settler on the road, who would 

 only let us have one horse ; so we piled the bag- 

 gage in a sledge* and walked t wehre miles by its 

 side. We could not, therefore, reach lockmock 

 that night, but skpt on the road. Just round 

 lockmock the forests were deeper and better tim- 

 beared than any we had seen since weleft Sundswall; 

 in feet, the whole character of the landscape was 

 becoming more like Lapland. A lot of Laps vere 

 quartered in the cottage where we sfept, withth^r 



