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restored to him, where he had reason to beheve he should 

 have found his grave. The symptoms of amendment 

 were ahnost instantaneous after eating of these berries*." 



In another passage he says : " A kind of jelly, made 

 of the fruit of the Cloudberry, was served with cream 

 for our dinner. Our benevolent host, finding the salu- 

 tary change produced in the author's health by eating of 

 this fruit, caused it to be sent to table in ail the various 

 ways of cooking it known in Sweden. The Lapps make 

 a jelly of it, by boiling it with fish. At this time, the 

 bogs near the water-side were covered with the fruit in 

 a ripe state. Our Swedish interpreter gathered half a 

 bushel of the berries in an hour and a half. In its natural 

 state, no fruit looks more beautiful. We endeavoured 

 to preserve a small cask of it to send to England ; but 

 wanting a sufficient quantity of sugar, the acetous fer- 

 mentation took place, and the whole was spoiled. When- 

 ever we walked near the river, we found whole acres 

 covered with its blushing berries, hanging so thick, that 

 we could not avoid treading upon them. As they ripen, 

 they lose their crimson hue, and turn yellow ; the flavour 

 of the fruit is not then so refreshing to the palate. They 

 are always most delicious when they have been cooked. 

 In their unripe state, they resemble in taste those di- 

 minutive stunted apples gathered from codlin-trees, which 

 boys call crumplings. Although they flourish most in 

 marshy places, their roots do not strike into the swamp, 

 but are found covering the hard and dry mounds of earth 

 which rise above it-f." 



Linnaeus believed the Rulms Arcticus, and the Rubiis 



* Clarke's Travels, vol. iii. p. 376. 

 t Ibid. p. 417. 



