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chamccmorus^ to grow only in Sweden, and even there 

 not in the southern provinces. The fruit of both these 

 species is sent in casks to Stockholm, annually; where it 

 is used in soup, and as a sauce with meat; as well as 

 for making vinegar, and other culinary purposes. The 

 Cloudberry is much more plentiful than the other, and 

 is eaten by the Lapps with the milk of the rein-deer. 

 During the winter, they preserve it in snow. 



Dr. Clarke was not ignorant that the Cloudberry 

 grows in this country, but he took pains to bring some 

 of the fruit from Sweden, because it grows there in 

 greater perfection than it does here. It is a native of 

 some of our northern counties, and is not uncommon on 

 the mountains of Scotland and Wales. The name of 

 Cloudberry is supposed to have reference to its growth 

 in mountainous situations. It is also called Knot, or 

 Knout-berry. 



Dr. Clarke mentions this fruit many times in the 

 course of the volume, and is never weary of praising it. 

 " This singular fruit,**' says Mr. Brooke, " which de- 

 servedly maintains so high a reputation, is found in the 

 greatest plenty all over the North ; a providential circum- 

 stance for the inhabitants, from the salubrious qualities 

 it possesses*." 



* Brooke's Sweden, p. 197. 



