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the country that was more particularly the objedt 

 of his enquiries, equally a ftranger to the language 

 and to the manners of the people, and without 

 any affociate, he committed himfelf to the hofpi- 

 tality of the inhabitants, and never failed to expe- 

 rience it fully. He fpeaks in feveral places, with 

 peculiar fatisfadion, of the innocence and fimpli- 

 city of their lives, and their freedom from difeafes. 

 In this excurfion, he reached the mountains to- 

 wards Norway^ and, after encountering great hard- 

 fliips, returned into IVeJl Bothnia^ quite exhaufted 

 with fatigue. He feems to have been much ftruck 

 with the fmgular ufe that the Laplanders make of 

 the Pinguicula vulgaris^ which we call Butterwort^ or 

 Yorklhire Sanicle : They receive the milk of the 

 rein-deer upon the frelh leaves of this plant, which 

 they immediately ftrain off, and fet afide, till it 

 becbmes fomewhat acefcent, and the whole ac- 

 quires, in a day or two, a confiftence equal to that 

 of cream, without feparating the ferum ; and by 

 this method it becomes an agreeable food. When 

 thus prepared, a fmall quantity of the fam-C has 

 the property of rennet, in producing the like 

 change on frefh milk. But to return : Our tra- 

 veller next vifited Vitha and Lula^ upon the gulph 

 of Bothnia.^ from which latter place he took again 

 a weftern route, by proceeding up the river of that 

 name, and vifited the ruins of the temple of Jock^ 

 mock^ in Lula-Lapland or Lap-Mark ; thence, he tra- 

 verfed what is called the Lapland Defer deftitute 

 of all villages, cultiyation, roads, or any conve- 

 niences ; inhabited only by a few ftraggling people, 

 originally defcended from the Finlanders^ and who 



fettled 



