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Brumaire, and even Frimaire (from the month of September to the latter end 
of December), and the seeds thus abandoned and exposed to an inclement 
season are soon after sheltered by the snows, which cover them, and when it 
melts, they are then acted upon by a super oxygenated water, which has a 
powerful operation on them, and greatly hastens on the principle of ger¬ 
mination. The Lapland year is very remarkable. 
THE LAPLAND CALENDAR. 
June 23. Snow melts. 
July 1. Snow gone . 
Q. Fields quite green. 
1 *J. Plants in full blow. 
August 2. Fruits ripe. 
10. Plants shed their seed. 
18. Snow. 
From this time to June 23 d, mow and ice . 
So that, by this account, plants, from the coming out of the ground to 
the ripening of their seeds, take but a month, and the spring, summer, and 
autumn, are crowded into the space of fifty-six days. 
The astonishing progress of the Siberian, or Lapland year, is finely 
depicted by Beattie, and certainly must in part be ascribed to the fertilizing 
influence of melted snow. 
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Lo! on the chill Lapponian’s dreary land. 
For many a long month lost in snow profound. 
When Sol from Cancer sends the season bland, 
And in northern cave the storms hath bound. 
From silent mountains, straight with startling sound. 
Torrents are hurl’d, green hills emerge, and soon 
The trees with foliage, cliffs with flowers are crown’d; 
Pure rills through vales of verdure warbling go; 
And wonder, love, and joy, the peasant’s heart o’erflow. 
Beattie. 
