Lachesis Lapponica; Or, A Tour in Lapland, Volume 2

This being a fast day, I heard a sermon in the Finnish tongue, preached at the church of Tornea. A lawful wife was churched, after her lying-in; which ceremony was performed in...

The Lemming or Red Mouse, see _p._ 18, (_Mus Lemmus_,) in some seasons entirely overruns the country; devouring the corn and grass: but though these animals thus occasionally ap...

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3. If the king should stand in _b_, and no other piece in _e_, _i_, or _m_, he may escape by that road, unless one of the Muscovites immediately gets possession of one of the sq...

Every body at Tornea was continually talking to me of a distemper to which their horned cattle are subject, and which kills many of them in the course of the winter, but especia...

The sledges, or beams, a, b, differ from the common ones in being broader, and in the elevation or thickness of each at d. The transverse beam c, on which the load is laid, is b...

Nothing occurred particularly worth noticing by the way, except an _Andromeda_ (_tetragona_) with quadrangular shoots, and flowers from the bosoms of the leaves. The stem is woo...

By four o'clock this morning, having conquered all our difficulties, we still could not meet with any Laplander. I was so fatigued that I could proceed no further without some r...

I passed Christina (Christinestadt), but before coming to that place, noticed at Nerpis a very extensive tract of land, which had formerly been a fine meadow, the soil being ext...

It is only in winter the clothes of the Laplanders have any sort of lining, except that these people generally wear, next the stomach, the skin of a young reindeer fawn. The sle...

3. Beyond this the dwarf and stunted forests consist only of Birch. Its short thick stem, and stiff, widely spreading, knotty branches, seem prepared to resist the strong winds...

Talc, i. 42. _Talcum Ollaris_, i. 356. _Tanacetum Balsamita_, i. 220. _Tanacetum vulgare_, ii. 201. Tanning, i. 80, 249. ii. 120, 121. _Taxus baccata_, i. 11. Tents of the mount...