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thefe iflands. Amongft the fea fowl are the colymbus, the peli¬ 
can, four different forts of gulls, the didapper, the eider, and more 
than a dozen other of the tribe of ducks. 
Of amphibious animals are three fpecies of lizards, or newts, 
frogs, &c. Amongft the fiili are found lalmon, trout, cod, had¬ 
dock, ling, perch, tench, pilchards, fprats, together with a con- 
fiderable number of other kinds. 
The infers found in Aland amount to the number of betwixt 
feven and eight hundred different fpecies : among thefe we fhall 
only make mention of one, and that on account of its very de- 
ftrudlive qualities. You often find trees in great number which 
have been killed by this fpecies of infedl; and, what is ftill more 
diftrefting and harrafling, houfes newly built have been known to 
fall into decay and ruin in a fhort time, entirely by the devafta- 
tion of thefe pernicious animals. 
The Alanders pay no great attention to the culture of bees. 
Crawfifh are not very common in thefe iflands, and were firft 
brought Over by the queen dowager of Guftavus the firft. 
The Flora Suecica reckons about fix hundred and eighty plants 
that are indigenous in Aland and the neighbouring ifles ; of which 
number one hundred and fifty are cryptogamia. Moft of the 
trees common to Sw T eden are alfo found in Aland. Few minerals 
are to be met w T ith here ; and the mountains are formed chiefly 
of a red kind of granite. 
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