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tmually infesting them. The animal, toavoid their effects, would 
prostrate himself before the little hot of the Laplander, and be 
secure from the tearing of his enemies by the smoke of the burnt 
aganc, which proceeded from it. 
On passing afterwards into the Lapland Alpine country he ob- 
seived a Rhem-deer, loaded with his own pack, frequently to stop 
short and become suddenly quiet and motionless as a pillar of 
s one, or one struck with catalepsy, the head held out straight 
e eais upright, and eyes fixed; nor by any ill treatment could 
1C e induced to proceed, but in a little while he would again 
resume his march. ” 
Early one morning, while he was in bed between two skins of 
the Rhem-deer he perceived a very ungrateful stink, when day- 
ight appeared there were standing about the cot a thousand of 
these Rhem-deer, dnven by old men, young boys, dogs, and 
women, who milked these animals. They appeared to be under 
the appiehension of some invisible attack. The animals carried 
then heads aloft, their ears pricked up and extended, beating the 
ground and kicking in the air with their feet, as though by 
enchantment; then for a while they would be quiet, then again 
they were seen most furious, and this with so general and regular 
a movement, that no army would have surpassed their exercises 
m uniformity. On asking the Laplanders the cause, they told 
him it was these Flies. 
, Anxi0us t0 as “rtain the truth of this, he was able with nice 
observation and scrutiny, to perceive flying backwards and for¬ 
wards in the air some of these Flies, which he endeavoured to 
catch, and assisted by the Laplanders succeeded in taking four or 
ve, which he sat down with pen and ink, greatly to the amuse¬ 
ment of the Laplanders, to describe, which occupies the remain- 
er of this pleasing essay, and which we shall give with the others 
at the conclusion. 
He observes, that those which he took had no weapon at the 
