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hundred and eleven species, of which number Arctic 
Lapland claims no fewer than fifty-two, besides owning 
eight species peculiar to itself—in all, sixty species in 
the Arctic census as compared with sixty-five in the 
British. 
A few really warm days at the end of May produce 
an abundance and a variety of insect-life of every 
denomination—winged, creeping, crawling, and hopping 
—the like of which I have not seen at home. The 
Norsk list includes many of the handsomest of European 
Rhopalocera , as, e.g ., Apollo, Antiopa, Paphia, Adippe, 
and many other fritillaries, Yirgaureae, Comma, etc. 
But at the same time, it also comprises those insect 
horrors, the gadfly and clegg (of sorts)—these due 
about mid-June ; and, two weeks later, the mosquito. 
IY. The Norsk People. 
To describe a country without even alluding to its 
inhabitants may seem discourteous. It is not so meant 
in my case, for I admit that (whether in Scandinavia 
or elsewhere) the human race are to me of minor 
interest as compared with the “ lower orders'’ of 
creation. Hence I am no judge ; and, besides, it has 
always seemed to me to border on presumption to 
criticise on brief experience a people whose language 
the censor can hardly speak. The brotherhood of sport 
I have found strong enough to dissipate all difficulties 
of tongue, and to secure me firm friendships in every 
quarter. The peasant-proprietor, or bonder of the 
backwoods (from whom one’s hunters or gillies are 
drawn), is by nature a gentleman : quiet and reserved, 
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