THROUGH LAPLAND. 
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compel them to enter. We had then time to view them at our 
leiiure. Thofe poor animals were lean, and of a fad and melan¬ 
choly appearance: their hair hung down, and their exceffive 
panting indicated how much they fuffcred at this feafon of heat 
and affliction: their fkins were pierced here and there, and ul¬ 
cerated by the mufquetoes, and the eggs of the fly called, in Lap- 
ponefe, henna , (ccjlrus tarandi, Linn.) which tormented them in 
the molt cruel manner. I made a collection of thofe infeCts and 
their eggs, intending them as prefentsfor my entomological friends. 
As to the milk which we tafted, it is not fo good at this time as 
in winter. In fummer it has always a kind of ftrong or wild 
tafte, and too much of what the French call an haut gout. 
Our guides advifed us to return to the boats, and avail ourfelves 
of the favourable breeze that had fprung up for purfuing our 
voyage; and we took leave of our Laplanders, whofe only regret 
at our departure feemed to be a mortification at the removal of 
the brandy. We palled in our boat the Whaal-Sund, or Sound 
of Whales, which was agitated at the fame time by the current 
that fets in here very {Long, and by the wind, which blcw T con¬ 
trary to the current. Whales refort to this ftrait in great num¬ 
bers, and are, as we were told, very common in all thefe fleas. 
Although we w r ere allured by our mariners, that they had never 
palled this ftrait without feeing eight or ten whales, we were fo 
unfortunate as not to get a fight of one. We went on fhore to 
the houfe of a merchant, fituated on an ifland near Havefund: 
this was perhaps the molt difmal habitation on the face ol the 
earth. 
