346 TRAVELS 
are corn, flour, fait, hemp, flax, woollen cloth, coarfe linens, to- 
bacco, and fpices. 
In the winter feafon the merchants travel in their fledges to 
different fairs, where they buy of the Laplanders their mofl va¬ 
luable furs, and give them in exchange fifh, meat, meal, and 
brandy. Some of them proceed as far as Archangel, and others 
to Alten in Norwegian Lapland. They carry on a contraband 
trade, which is the mofl profitable of all others; and as the boun¬ 
daries which divide Norwegian from S-wedifh Lapland, are but ill 
guarded, they eafily convey from one fide to the other fuch articles 
of commercial fpeculation as they find mofl advantageous. They 
fend to Stockholm great loads of falted flefh of the rein-deer, and 
an infinite number of birds. There are years in which they ex¬ 
port thither to the amount of four thoufand birds, which in win¬ 
ter will keep for fome months without fpoiling in the leafl. 
A view of the fun at midnight in Tornea, has always been 
regarded as an objedl fingularly interefling; and hence a very 
confiderable number of travellers have vifited this place. I was 
at pains to feek out and take down the names of fuch as are mofl 
diftinguifhed for their curiofity, literary labours, and merit, and 
who have a right to be added to the lift of men of letters. Per¬ 
haps it will not be unacceptable to my readers to fee fuch of the 
names as I have been able to collect, which are the following 
I begin with the firfl French traveller in this country 
In the year 
1081 Jean Franc Regnard, de Fefcourt & de Corberou; 
