: 136 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
- land—tents, provisions, a cook, &c. There remained yet two hundred 
the most careful drawings and minute examinations of minerals. Jo 
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V. MisceLLaneous INTELLIGENCE. 
* 1. Translation of part of a letter from Mr. E. F. de Furuhjelm,one 
* the officers of a Scientific Expedition sent out by the Emperor of i : 
to the Northern part of Finnland and Lapland, to Oscar M. Lieber. 
“ei Kurfamo appimatt, 67° N. L., July 28, 1850. (Comimonicell 
_ ocbiie “At the beginoin of June, ctr Helsingfors for 
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English mies to Kuusamo Kirube. The distance took us six or seven 
days, though hitherto we had traveled atthe rate of eight miles an hour. 
The stations where we could procure horses became fewer and fewer, and 
frequently I was obliged to wait one or two days for horses. At Kuusama F 
church all roads were at an end, ee thence | was obliged to travel either 
on the lakes and rivers or on foot. WhenI say I am now in Lapland, 
I am wrong, for in this parish no a plane oe his lived within the last 
hundred years, Finnish colonists have pressed them on farther North, 
somewhat as has been done with your Indians. They have here some 
litletagriculture (rye), anda few settlements. From ten to twenly 
miles farther north, we have the true Laplanders, who roam about with 
e hours are not what we would call daylight, but rather a kind o i: 
twilight. A few miles farther on they do not see the sun at all for a 
whole month. The population here is very sparse ; fishery and breed- a 
ing of cattle furnish the only means of subsistence. Reindeers are 
much used: a rich peasant has from three to four hundred; the La ge 
landers several thousand. Very few are seen here in summer, for, a 
soon as the snow thaws in spring, they are driven into the forests. Tn Z 
autumn almost the whole population go out; a large space is fenced in, 
and after tedious driving, they collect the half wild reindeer, and each f 
individual selects his own—they are all marked—and takes them home. : 
feed themselves by: scraping out the moss from under the snow, and the 
peasants consequently do not have to look out for their feeding. For 
are few horses here, higher up none. A — iret. (in ri 
landish pulka) is shaped like a boat (conat). Reins are not used 
with horses, only a strap round the neck. The animal may 
edithent motion, but so soon as I pull the strap to the side, it.stands still. 
In driving in. the pulka, we make use of Soar be reindeer hide, 
through a hole in which the head is thrust Almost the — 
whole of June, I could see the sun all night a i ee tops, consid- — 
erably above the horizon. Night was as light as day, and I could make | 
June and July, we had intense heat, accompanie 
ies. The peasants guard themselves against these te me t 
by —e face and hands with tar; I had a mask of gauze. 
