Close to the borders of the bay or creek, are many little sequestered villages scattered among the hills. Each has but a small valley adjoining, and consequently not above a cornfield or two within its district, with a very small portion of pasture-ground attached to each house, though possibly there might be more further off, which I could not perceive. The inhabitants therefore would scarcely be able to subsist, were it not for the vast plenty of fish within their reach, which serves them for food and for sale. The sea here not only abounds with a great variety of species, but the individuals of each are also uncommonly numerous. The people were continually talking to me about the whale fishery. I had here an opportunity of seeing how salmon are caught. Some piles are placed in the mouth of a little creek or cove, adjoining to a small fence or row of pales. Close to this a perpendicular net is placed in the water, in a curved position, one end being fastened to the shore, the other to two cords, while the middle is floated out, by means of a buoy in the mouth of the creek, towards the sea. When the fish swim up the creek to a certain distance, they are entrapped in this net, the cords being pulled by two people stationed in a hut adjoining, built for the purpose of watching the net. The plant here called _Missne_, and used for food by the people, is the Water Dragons (_Calla palustris_); while that given to cattle is the _Menyanthes_ (_trifoliata_). Horses are fed with the finest tops of the twigs of spruce fir, chopped extremely small, and mixed with an equal quantity of barley. Such feed is used only in times of great scarcity, but it is very excellent provender. The church of this place is but small. The herbs I collected hereabouts were _Mesomora_ (_Cornus suecica_) with a proliferous blossom. _Spergula marina_ with spatulate petals, ten stamens, and three very short pistils. (_Arenaria peploides_). _Apium palustre_ (_Ligusticum scoticum_). _Trifolium_ with a monopetalous flower, of a white colour, (_T. pratense_). _Muscipula montana minima_ (perhaps _Gypsophila muralis_, see _Fl. Lapp. n. 171_). _Gramen triticeum maritimum, flore glauco_, (_Elymus arenarius?_ see _Fl. Lapp. ed. 2. n. 34_). _Glaux_ (_maritima_). A _Fucus_ in long strips, resembling flax; with many other species of that genus. _Filum marinum, in aquâ villosum._ _Coronopus_ with dotted leaves (a variety of _Plantago maritima_). There were numerous _Echini_ (Sea Urchins), as well as _Patellæ_ (Limpets), and _Balani_ (Barnacles); all so abundant on the shore that we could scarcely walk without treading upon them. I noticed likewise some kinds of Star-fish (_Asterias_), with many Corallines, and petrified Corals. (See Linnæus's dissertation, entitled _Corallia Baltica, Amœn. Acad. v. 1. 74_.)