but we may presume that the fine is considered as no less indispensable an atonement than the penance.--Pity that such tractable sheep should not be better worth shearing! This day I found the very hairy variety of the Purple Marsh Cinquefoil (_Comarum palustre_) mentioned by Plukenet (_t. 212, f. 2_). The plants were of the last year's growth, and their hairiness the more conspicuous; but it is a mere variety. The Laplanders never eat but twice a day, often only once, and that towards evening. On the banks of the river, where fragments are to be found of all the productions of the mountains, I met with silver ore. The insects which fell under my observation this day were the great Black Humble-bee (_Apis terrestris_), the Wasp, the Gnat (_Culex pipiens_), and the Flesh Fly (_Musca carnaria_). _June 5._ On the mountainous ground adjoining to the river I met with an herbaceous plant never before observed in Sweden. The flowers were not yet blown, but appeared within a few days of coming to perfection. I opened some, and found them of a papilionaceous structure. The tip of the standard, as well as of the keel, which was cloven, had a purplish hue. The whole habit of the plant showed it to be an _Astragalus_ (_A. alpinus_ _Fl. Lapp. n. 267. t. 9. f. 1._), which was confirmed by the last-year's pods, remaining on their stalks. I called it for the present _Liquiritia minor_ (Small Liquorice). By this time I became almost starved, having had nothing fit to eat or drink for four days past, neither boiled provision of any sort, nor any kind of spoon-meat. I had chiefly been supported by the dried flesh of the reindeer above mentioned, which my stomach could not well digest, nor indeed bear except in small quantities. The fish which was offered me I could not taste, even to preserve my life, as it swarmed with vermin. At length I happily reached the house of the curate, and obtained some fresh meat. The curate here had caught the Gwiniad (_Salmo Lavaretus_) five palms in length, which is an unusual size. This fish is remarkable for spawning near Lycksele church about Michaelmas, but in the alps at Christmas, advancing gradually up the river between those two periods after pairing. The small Gwiniad (_Salmo Albula_) pairs under the ice at this place about Christmas. In Smoland it pairs at Michaelmas. Reindeer milk is excellent for making cheese, a pail of about three quarts yielding a large quantity. On this account those who keep cows add a portion of it to their milk; by which method they obtain much more cheese than otherwise.