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TRAVELS 
be lefs pervious to the warmth of the atmofphere. The fhow was 
entirely gone on Keimio, but we obferved it lying here and there 
on mount Pallas, a circumftance probably owing to the difference 
of their refpedlive elevations. 
We made various perambulations round this mountain in fearch 
of birds and plants. We found a couple of groufe (tetrao cagopus 
of Linn.) which were more than one half white; and alfo a 
couple of emberlza nivalis, Linn, which were juft beginning to 
change the colour of their plumage; they were ftill almoft entirely 
white. 
The fifti of the lake are the following: 
Salmo albula Cyprinus alburnus 
Perea fluviatilis Efox lucius 
Gadus lota 
On our return homeward we examined the channel of the river 
for fhells, in which it is not unufual to find pearls. We found 
the fpecies called my a pi dor urn, but the pearls were fcarcely vifible, 
and in all of them fo very trifling, that w 7 e thought them not 
worth our notice. Our attendants were aftonifhed at the zeal 
with which w T e purfued our refearches; nor had they the fmalleft 
conception of their utility. The parfon himfelf w T as at a lofs to 
difeover what real advantages we could propofe to ourfelves by the 
inveftigation of infects and plants. Since his library was deftroyed, 
he had found that he could eafily difpenfe with divinity, and fan¬ 
cied he had difeovered that divinity, viewed as a fcience, was en¬ 
tirely ufelefs, and that the fciences in general were good for no¬ 
thing 
