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SCANDINAVIA. 
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form their bows for fhooting the fquirrel with pieces united with glue, made from: 
the fkin of the perch. Their fragile boats are formed of the thinneft boards: their 
ropes of the fibrous roots: and finally, the inner bark, pulverized and baked, is the: 
fubftitute for, bread toa people deftined to this rigorous climate. Thefe three trees,. 
the Dwarf Birch, N° 341, the dider, N° 340, and not lefs than twenty-three fpecies- 
of Willows, form the whole of the trees of Lapland. Every other Swedi/h tree 
vanifhes on approaching that country. 
There is a great analogy between the plants of thefe northern Alps, and thofe of. 
the Scotti/hb Highlands. A botanift is never furprized with meeting fimilar plants. 
on hills of the fame height, be their diftance ever fo great. It may be remarked, 
that out of the three hundred and feventy-nine perfect plants which grow in 
Lapland, two hundred and ninety-one are found in Scotland; and of the hundred. 
and fifty cryptogamous, ninety-feven are to be met with in North Britain. 
The Alps, the woods, and marfhes of the vaft region of Scandinavia (for I will 
confider it in the great) give fhelter to numbers of quadrupeds unknown to Britains 
Thofe which brave the feverity of the extreme north of this country are diftin- 
guifhed by the addition of the Lapland name. The Elk, N° 3 of this Work, is 
found in many parts: the Rein, Godde, N° 4, is confined to the chillieft places: the 
Wolf, Kumpi, N° g, is a peft to the whole: the Arétic Fox, Njal, N° 10, fkirts 
the fhores of all the northern regions: the Crofs Fox, Raude, N° 11. @, and the 
Black Fox, N° 11. «. is fcattered every where ; the Lynx, 4/bos *, N° 15, inhabits 
the thickeft woods: the Bear, Guouzhia, N° 20, and Glutton, Gjeed’s, N° 21,. 
have the fame haunts: the Sable, N° 30, which continued in Lapland till the 
middle of the laft century, is now extinét: the Leffer Otter; or Mznk, of the 
Swedes, is confined to Finland: the Beaver, Majag, N° 90, is ftill found in an un- 
fociable ftate in feveral parts: the Flying Squirrel, p. 124, the Orava of the Fin- 
Janders, is found in their forefts +, and thofe of Lapland: the Lemmus, Lumenik, 
p- 136, is at feafons the peft of Norway, ifluing like a torrent from the Koelen 
chain: The Walrus, AZorfh, Ne 71, is fometimes found in the Finmark feas: the 
Harp Seal, Delja, N° 77, the Rough Seal, N° 74, the Hooded, Oanide? N° 76, 
and the Little Seal, Ai/?. Quad. ii. N° 386, omitted by me in this Work, inhabit 
* I have vo proof of this but the name. The Zyzx inhabits Noravay and Saweden, and all the 
woody parts of Sibiria; a ciccumftance I omitted in p. 50, of this Work. I fcarcely know whether f 
fhould apologize for the omiffion of the Fitchet, Hi. Quad. i. N° 195 ; the Mufela Putorius, N° 16, 
Faun. Suec. Linnus {peaks with uncertainty of its being found in Scania, and that is a latitude 
yather too far fouth for my plan. 
# See Mr. Gabriel Bonfdorff’s account of the animals of Finland, p. 24, 
the 
