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where were Mountains of Ice, and in a Town cali'd 
P^/?l?, there obferved the Sun all Night Two Diameters 
above the Horizon. The 14th of June they uent to 
Kenges Copper and Iron Works,where they obferved it 
Three Diameters above the Horizon, the Place being 
66^. 4j\ Lat. by Obftrvation. They were hindered 
to proceed further, the Roads into North Lapland be- 
ing impaffable except in Winter. They got the Mttais 
ol: the Countrey, and a piece of Magnet.They find them 
in the Swedijh Iron Mines, but the Lapptfh have greateft 
Vertue of any the Author ever faw.They return'd by ma- 
ny Precipices through a Defart Countrey only here and 
there an Inhabitant on the Banks fide, (who live by Fifh- 
ing, and the fpade) to Torneo, where they made an 
Obfcrvation for the Latitude of the Place, which agreed 
with the other. 
In the Fourth Chapter he treats of Refraftions, and 
how they come, and are greater in fome Pkces than o- 
thers,through the differentConftitution of theAir.Nearer 
the Poles they are the greater, fo that the Dutch in No* 
va Zmhlay law the Sun through Refraflrion, when it 
ought to have been 4^. under the Horizon, by ordina- 
ry Refradion Tables, be aderts this to be the Reafon of 
their feeing the Sun at Torneo^ which ought to have been 
47'. below the Horizon. He recounts ether Obfervati- 
ens, and makes them plain with proper Schemes. 
In the Fifth Chapter he treats of the Frigid Zone; 
and fays, at Torneo they were Perifcii, having the Sha- 
dow go round them. In Sea Towns they make 
Obftrvations better than at Land, becaufe of the Inter- 
pofition of Trees and Mountains. The Sun ripens 
their Corn in Six or Seven Weeks, which they (aw 
in the Grafs in WeH Bothnia ^ which m June^ 
paffing , was come out of its Stalk, a Month auer 
in their Return was mowed. The Inhabitants live 
long. They have feldom Thunder. 
