Travels through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, to the North Cape, in the years 1798 and 1799 . atoesthrive very well; but that other culinary roots and plants are notraifed without much difficulty. Barley and oats are producedhere. In the cultivation of the earth they make ufe of a ploughof a conftruction peculiar to the country, but which is very welladapted to ploughing a foil where there is a great number of largeHones to be avoided in that operation. The rubus arfficus doesnot thrive fo well as the rubus chafhamorus. The birds he notices are the following:— Strix Scandiaca Tringa lobata Str
Travels through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, to the North Cape, in the years 1798 and 1799 . atoesthrive very well; but that other culinary roots and plants are notraifed without much difficulty. Barley and oats are producedhere. In the cultivation of the earth they make ufe of a ploughof a conftruction peculiar to the country, but which is very welladapted to ploughing a foil where there is a great number of largeHones to be avoided in that operation. The rubus arfficus doesnot thrive fo well as the rubus chafhamorus. The birds he notices are the following:— Strix Scandiaca Tringa lobata Strix Nyctea Platalea Leucorodia Turdus rofeus Anas nigra Motacilla Suecica Anas Lapponica Of infects he neither gives any defcription or enumeration, norany lift of their names. He made a collection however of them,which he fent to his correfpondents in Sweden, and to the aca-demy o( fciences, from which he has a penfion of fixty rix dollarsa year, to enable him to purfue his ftatifiical refearches, and tomake obfervations, and attend to objects of natural hiftory. 0 Our. Ihlacr pay, >//,,;r ^„, , THROUGH LAPLAND. 127 Our journey from Enontekis to Tornea lay always along thebanks of livers : we paffed on to Muonionifca, where we faw ourfriend the pried, and our excellent pilot Simon. We vifited ouracquaintances at the different places we came to, for inftance, atKengis and Upper Tornea, where we paid our refpects to the mi-nifter of the parifh, and his amiable daughters. At Tornea we didnot fail to wait on our friends, the rector and the merchants,who confidered us prodigious travellers : and at laft we made atriumphant entry into Uleaborg, where we difplayed to our fcru-pulous friends, the fliells, fponges, birds, and other natural curiofi-ties we had collected, in proof of our having really been at theNorth Cape, the fartheft extremity of Europe. CONCLUSION. THUS ends a courfe, fays Reignard, in conclufion of his-Journey to Lapland, which I w
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