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REIKEVIG. 
the vicinity of Reikevig; and a portion, also, in 
balls and festivities, as well on board the Talbot, 
as in the town, or in visits to the Stiftsamptman at 
Vidde, and to Doctor Clog, the chief phvsician of 
the island, who lived at an excellent house at 
Noes-gaard, where we were sure to meet from 
him and his lady, with a kind and hospitable re¬ 
ception. My memory no farther enables me to 
continue my journal in any thing like a regular 
manner, but, even had this been the case, yet still 
such would be found the uninteresting nature of 
the events that happened, except, indeed, those 
political ones that are more fully detailed in the 
Appendix A, that they could afford but little 
amusement. I therefore have less reason for 
regret at having lost this part of my notes, and 
I proceed to a brief recital of such matter as 
fell under my own personal observation, but has 
been omitted to be noticed in the course of my 
journal; conceiving that it may be of service in 
adding somewhat to our knowledge of the natural 
history of the island. 
** My inclination rather than my ability leads me 
in the first place to offer a few remarks on the bo¬ 
tany and zoology of the country. In these two 
great kingdoms of nature, perhaps it would be dif¬ 
ficult to find any spot of land of a similar extent, in 
an equal degree of latitude, which can lay claim to 
so small a number of species. The arctic regions 
