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He mentions the enormous quantity of wolves, which in the 
courfe of the preceding year (1 7Q8) had committed extraordinary 
ravages among the rein-deer, and which he aferibes to the war 
in Finland. 
• On the fubjeCl of natural productions, he fays, that potatoes 
thrive very well; but that other culinary roots and plants are not 
raifed without much difficulty. Barley and oats are produced 
here. In the cultivation of the earth they make ufe of a plough 
of a conftruCtion peculiar to the country, but which is very well 
adapted to ploughing a foil where there is a great number of large 
Hones to be avoided in that operation. The rubus arflicus does 
not thrive fo well as the rubus chatruzmorus. 
The birds he notices are the following: 
Strix Scandiaca 
Strix NyCtea 
Turdus rofeus 
Motacilla Suecica 
Tringa Lapponica 
Tringa lobata 
Platalea Leucorodia 
Anas nigra 
Anas Erythropus. 
Of infeCts he neither gives any defeription or enumeration, nor 
any lift of their names. He made a collection however of them, 
which he fent to his correspondents in Sweden, and to the aca¬ 
demy of feienees, from which he has a penfion of fixty rix dollars 
a year, to enable him to purfue his ftatiftical refearches, and to 
make obfervatioovs, and attend to objefts of natural hiftory. 
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