THROUGH LAPLAND. 
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mifed on the whole to be a very pleafant and comfortable expedi¬ 
tion. We were furnifhed with cufhions and mattreffes, bed clothes 
and coverings. By way of provifions, we had every thing that 
was good, fuch as white wine, claret, brandy, frefh falmon, roafled 
fowls, veal, hams, coffee, tea, with the neceffary utenfils; and, in 
a„word, all that we could poffibly have occafion for. It was, in- 
deed, nothing but a party of pleafure on the icy ocean. The 
gulf that I have mentioned, indenting the mountains, offered 
every where the moft magnificent and interefting profpe6l. 
We fet out from Alten, on Monday the 15th of July, at two 
o’clock in the afternoon ; and we did not arrive at the Cape till 
the night between the Friday and Saturday following. Three 
miles from Alten we paffed on our right a mountain, called in 
Norwegian HtmelJar , or Heaven-man, from which there fell into 
the fea five or fix cafcades, two or three hundred yards of per¬ 
pendicular height. Farther onward was another grand cataract, 
where we quenched our third;. We went up into the mountains to 
fee the place where it had its fource, and were furprifed to find 
at their fummit very beautiful natural meadows. Still farther off, 
we again faw a fine cafcade rufhing down from another moun¬ 
tain. All thefe waterfalls were fupplied, no doubt, by the melt¬ 
ing of the fnow on the diftant mountains, which formed as it 
were the back ground of the picture. The cafcade laft mentioned 
was precipitated from a hill, adorned on three fides with a wood 
of birch, fpread in the manner of an amphitheatre, fo that it ap¬ 
peared as if it had been planted by the hand of man. In the midft 
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