THROUGH LAPLAND. 
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fcene of defolation; the ruggednefs of the dark gray rock is not 
covered by a fingle lhrub; the only mufic is the hoarfe mur¬ 
muring of the waves, ever and anon renewing their affaults on 
the huge maffes that oppofe them. The northern fun, creeping 
at midnight at the diftance of five diameters along the horizon, 
and the immeafurable ocean in apparent contact with the fkies, 
form the grand outlines in the fublime picture prefented to the 
aftonifhed fpectator. The inceffant cares and purfuits of anxious 
mortals are recollected as a dream; the various forms and energies 
of animated nature are forgotten; the earth is contemplated only 
in its elements, and as conflituting a part of the folar fyfterm 
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