I saw no flies in Lapland, but in Norway the houses are full of them. I was however no longer infested with swarms of gnats. At the place where I stopped to rest after my fatiguing journey, they gave me Sword-fish (_Xiphias Gladius_) to eat, which very much resembled Salmon in flavour. It was of a large size, with a dorsal fin continued from the middle of the back to the tail. _July 12._ The next day it blew so very hard that I did not venture to leave this place by sea. I took a walk in the morning on the beach, it being low water, and noticed various marine productions. Several species of _Fucus_ were attached either to stones or shells, as well as _Ulvæ_ and _Confervæ_. Barnacles (_Lepas Balanus_ and _L. Balanoides_) were seen sticking to large stones, at present left by the tide. I noticed also several univalve and bivalve shells of various sizes. The _Strombus_ (_Pes pelecani_) with and without its dilated lip; also some small Crabs, and other things. I gathered a viviparous avenaceous grass (what this was cannot be ascertained). Here likewise I noticed several Zoophytes, and among them the three following _Medusæ_. 1. _Medusa_ (_capillata_) of an octagonal shape, with notched angles. The annexed figure shows its under side. The whole is transparent like glass. There are eight pair of rays, within which the disk, and other rays at the base of the former, are all covered with minute scaly prickles, ranged in concentric circular rows. The outer feelers, which look like the stamens of a flower, are sometimes snow-white, sometimes of a reddish flesh-colour, and crisped. Within these is a central cluster of longer feelers, resembling pistils. [Illustration] 2. _Medusa_ (_aurita_) orbicular, with four little hearts in the middle. This is also entirely pellucid like glass, except that the little heart-shaped marks are red, each with a transparent cavity in its centre. There are four crisped auricles, or feelers, between them. [Illustration] 3. _Medusa_ (_cruciata_) orbicular, marked with a white cross. Entirely of a glassy transparency, but marked with a white cross which completely divides it into four parts. There are no feelers, nor could I discern any vestige of a mouth. Can this be in the state of an egg? [Illustration] One object of the Laplanders who accompanied me hither, to Torfjorden, was the purchase of brandy. They drank it in the first place as long as they could stand on their legs, and having brought with them a number of dried reindeer bladders, these were subsequently all filled with brandy, tied up, and carried away by them. Their general custom is to use small cups, about one third the size of a spoon, by means of which each Laplander in his turn will often contrive to swallow a whole quartern of brandy.