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and after having been kept for some time buried 
in dry earthy and eaten with fish or butter, yet 
it is by no means so universally adopted, as is 
the case among the natives of Lapland*. This 
whole day was fine and warm, except that 
* This plant is not only an article of luxury among the 
Laplanders, but is also used by them as a medicine to cure 
the spasms, arising from cholic, on both which subjects Lin¬ 
naeus expresses himself so beautifully, in his own peculiar 
lauguage, in the Flora Lapponica, that I make no apology 
for the length of the following extracts :— <( Morbo laborant 
“ saepius Lappones sylvatici vehementissimo, Ullem vel Holme 
“ dicto, qui species Colic.ae est, et ad Colicam spasmodicam 
“ Scheuchzeri proxime accedit; e.orripiuntur enim interanea 
t( circa regionem umbilicalem spasmis dirissimis, qui exten- 
“ duntur ad pubem usque, paroxysmis parturientium sane 
“ vehementioribus, ita ut miser Lappo, vermis instar, repat 
“ per terram et urinam saepe sanguinolentam redd at, licet 
“ calculi nulla omnino sit suspicio apud hanc gentem a cal- 
culo et podraga privileges naturae defensam ; post aliquot 
“ horarum, quandoque diei, spatium, resolvitur ptyalismo 
“ ingenti per quadrantem horae durante. Dicunt ipsi, quod 
<s hie morbus in Alpibus eos non adrediatur, sed tantum- 
modo dum in sylvis per aestatem degunt, hausta scilicet 
“ ibidem aqua semiputrida, vi radiorum solarium calefacta, 
<f vel forte vermiculis scatente. In hoc morbo variis utuntur 
r ‘ medicamentis, et omnibus quidem fortissimis, ut vehemen- 
“ tern morbum aeque vehementi oppugnent alexiterio, quale 
“ est radix Angelicae, cineres aut oleum Tabaci, Castoreum 
t( liquidum, &c.—Caules Angelicae hujus sunt Lapponum 
t( deliciae et fructus aestivi, quibus benigna natura eos dona- 
vit, dura nimis et immisericordi existente Pomona, quae 
