406 A SPEING AND SUMMER IN LAPLAND. 



Lasting will be the impression wliicli tlie 

 beauty of the Lapland landscape left upon my 

 mind, and I trust that many others will gaze upon 

 it with the same feelings of delight as myself. 

 There is something cheerless in the word " wan- 

 derer; 55 but depend upon it, that the man who is 

 tied to one spot, and whose whole life is solely 

 engrossed in the cares and business of the world, 

 becomes as it were a mere automaton, and although 

 the one all- engrossing pursuit of money- making 

 may absorb every better feeling, he must at 

 length 



" Weary at the oar 

 Which thousands, once chained fast to, quit no more.'' 



And although there may be times when the wan- 

 derer will sigh for the comforts of a settled and 

 domestic home, there are others when he would 

 scarcely exchange his lot with the wealthiest in 

 the land. 



It is when wandering among scenes like those 

 above described that the cares and troubles of 

 the world are really forgotten. It is among such 

 scenes that a man learns to feel his true position, 

 and if he only tries to read the great book of 

 nature aright, "to lookup from nature unto nature 5 s 

 God,' 5 instead of regarding his time as thrown 

 away, he may consider the hours thus spent as 

 some of the happiest and most profitable in his 



