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SECTION XXVII. 
Some Obfervations relative to the Climate and Natural Hi/lory of 
Lapland. 
^ipHE materials which I have collected on the fubje< 5 t of Lap- 
land, are fo numerous and of fo various a nature, that I 
might have confiderably increafed the bulk of this work if I had 
chofen to incorporate in it every thing I poffefs. But I fliould 
perhaps have abufed the patience of the reader, if I had extended 
my remarks any farther than I have already done. I think it, 
therefore, better to keep back what remains, and to produce it at 
fome future period, if a fufficient degree of approbation encourage 
me to fuch an undertaking. I cannot, however, at prefent take 
my leave without communicating the following table, as an au¬ 
thentic piece of information, which may afford fome light refpecd:- 
ing the climate of thofe northern diftridts, through which I have 
carried the reader in the foregoing pages. The place to which it 
refers is Utsjocki, upon the river Tana , in Lappmark, fituated under 
69 degrees 53 minutes north latitude; and perhaps no obferva- 
tions of the kind have ever been made farther to the northward. 
.This table was given me by Mr. Julin, who had fuggefted the 
idea of making fimilar remarks to the Rev. Mr. Caftrein (brother 
of 
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