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when not overworked, being quite on a par with 

 those in the middle of Sweden. The cows are 

 also as good, and the sheep, could they only have 

 been well fed in winter, would have been very 

 tolerable. No doubt pigs would live in Lapland if 

 they only had enough to eat, but the expense of 

 carriage of corn up here renders it too valuable to 

 be given to the pig. 



Although, perhaps, rather out of place, I may 

 add that the carriage of a quarter of rye up from 

 Lulea to Quickiock, even by sledging in winter, 

 which is the only time it can be brought up, is 

 about £3 10s., so that the price of rye in Quick- 

 iock, in 1861, which was a dear year in the north, 

 might be quoted at about £7 the quarter. No 

 wonder, therefore, that bread is scarce up here ; I 

 do not believe the Laps often see it on the fells. 

 But then their substitute is reindeer cheese with 

 their coffee, and a very lasting and excellent food 

 to work upon is this same reindeer cheese. Like 

 the Australian damper, a little bit goes a long way, 

 and, I suppose on account of its indigestible 

 qualities, sticks by a man a long time. 



