THROUGH LAPLAND. 
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bigheft marks of diftindtion : he offered us different kinds of liquor; 
he made us a prefent of fome fponges, which are found in thofe 
parts, together with fome fea-fhells; among the latter was a cancer 
Bernhardus eremita , in a buccinum glaciale : he gave us alfo a fpeci- 
men of an aka alee, which his fon had Ruffed; he fhewed us the 
environs of his habitation; thefe confifted fimply of rocks and fome 
caverns, where they hunted the otter: and at our departure, he 
hoifted the Danifti flag, and faluted us with three difeharges of 
his cannon. All thefe exceffive marks of refpedt and veneration 
were not, perhaps, the eftedt of mere hofpitality, but more pro¬ 
bably of the delufive fancy that we w y ere two princes travelling in 
diftmife. This delufion was founded in a circumftance that had 
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previoufly happened. A fon of the late duke of Orleans, after tra¬ 
velling through Norway, came from thence to this coaft in a fhip. 
From the ifle he proceeded to Alten, from Alten he traverfed on 
horfeback nearly the fame ground that we had done, in company 
with a young man of the name of Montjoye: Both travelled 
under borrowed names : the firft under that of Muller, the fecond 
under that of Froberg, which is of the fame import in the Ger¬ 
man as his own name in French. The year after thefe gen¬ 
tlemen had been here, the merchants on the coaft were informed 
by their correfpondents that one of them was the Prince of Or¬ 
leans : and from that time they believed in Norway, as well as on 
the coaft of Lapland, that every ftranger, accompanied by another, 
and one or two fervants, was fome prince on his travels, either for 
inftrudtion or amufement. In order to form a juft eftimate of 
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