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engage in that occupation during the time they Ray. In winter, 
when the lakes and rivers are clofely bound up with ice, they 
contrive, neverthelefs, to purfue the avocation of hilling; and 
even take confiderable quantities, by cutting holes in the ice, and 
putting their nets through them into the water under the ice. 
The Laplanders ufe, for their nets, the bark of the birch-tree 
inftead of cork ; and as they grow no hemp, they form their ropes 
and lines of the finews of the rein-deer. 
The river Tana takes its rife in the diftant mountains of Lap- 
land, runs through Eaft Finmark, and after receiving in its courfe 
feveral fmall ftreams and torrents from the mountains, at length 
empties itfelf with a very rapid current into the fea at a bay to 
which it gives its name : this river is remarkable for producing 
falmon of an extraordinary fize and rich flavour. The falmon 
fifhery begins here early in the fpring, and is over at the end of 
the fecond week after Midfummer-day.* Large quantities of 
falmon are alfo taken in the riven Alten in Weft Finmark: this 
river likewife gives name to the bay in which it meets the fea. 
* It may not he amifs to fpecify the genus falmo , as it is found in that country, 
according to a communication from my valuable friend Dr. Quenzel. It is as 
follows: 
Salmo Salar, the common falmon, which goes up the rivers in fummer for the 
purpofe of depofiting its fpawn. 
Salmo Alpinus is alfo found in the lake of Wennern in Sweden. 
Salmo Lavaretus, called Jlk by the Swedes, is caught at the cataracts when it is at¬ 
tempting to mount up. 
Salmo Thymallus: harr in Swedilh. It is alfo to be met with in the rivers of 
Westrobothnia and Angermania. 
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