Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa . topped several holes in sides of the hut, we set up our beds, and betook our-selves to rest. The seene which our bedchamber exhibitedwas somewhat singular. The stars glimmered through theyawning cavities of the roof above us. Hides, furs, nets,boat-paddles, kettles, pans, sledges, spinning-wheels, & piled or suspended around us. An old woman laysnoring close to our heads, wrapped in rein-deer servants were stretched on benches alongside of lire- place, heaped with glowing embers, was surroundedby our g
Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa . topped several holes in sides of the hut, we set up our beds, and betook our-selves to rest. The seene which our bedchamber exhibitedwas somewhat singular. The stars glimmered through theyawning cavities of the roof above us. Hides, furs, nets,boat-paddles, kettles, pans, sledges, spinning-wheels, & piled or suspended around us. An old woman laysnoring close to our heads, wrapped in rein-deer servants were stretched on benches alongside of lire- place, heaped with glowing embers, was surroundedby our guides and horsemen ; and these, together withthe old fisherman, and the Norwegian vagrants we hadpicked up in our way, sate smoking tobacco, and chatteringover the remnants of the meagre diet they had helped todevour. Presently all were silent, and fast asleep ; not asound being heard, excepting the nasal bugles of the com-pany, keeping time with the whistling of the Alpine blastthrough the crevices, which served as a lullaby until themorning. The Hailing and the Polsk, antient Greek Dances, i CHAP. XVI. FROM MALMAGEN, UPON THE NORWEGIAN ALPS, TO trOnijem. Visit to the Laplanders—Further Observations respecting this People—Their mode of killing Rein-deer—Passage of the Norwegian Alps—Valedictory Retrospect of the North of Sweden—Descent fromthe Heights—Source of the Glommen River—Fish called Roe—Species of Ptarmigan—Difficulty of the Route—Brakken—Changeobservable in the Habits of the Natives—Oresund Lake—Beckaas—Storvartz—Arrival at Roraas—News of our former Companions—Library of a Learned Englishman—Visit to the Copper Mines—Description of the Ore, its Matrix, and Mineral Associations —Extraordinary Direction of the Veins—State of the [Forks—Mode ofblasting the Ore—Appointed Labour of the Miners—Profits arisingfrom them—Produce of the Four Principal Smelting-houses—Situationof Roraas—Effect of Sulphureous Exhalation
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