Parkajaur, the first lake I reached after leaving the place where I slept, is a short mile in length. At its opposite shore rises the lofty peaked mountain of Achiekoivi, or Tornberget, upon whose summit the Laplanders used, in ancient times, to offer sacrifice, for the success of their herds of reindeer. The mountain still shows traces of fire. At the western end of this lake a Laplander resided, and from thence it was scarcely a quarter of a mile by land to the next lake, called Skalk, where as I passed near a waterfall, I found the _Barbarea_ and _Pedicularis_, both already mentioned, also the Asphodel (_Tofieldia palustris, Fl. Brit._) and the little _Astragalus_, see _p. 159_. [Illustration] When I came to the lake Skalk in the way towards Kiomitis, about a mile short of the last-mentioned place, I was much struck with an opening between the hills to the north-west, through which appeared a range of mountains, from ten to twenty miles distant, as white as the clouds, and seeming not above a mile from the spot where I stood. Their summits reached the clouds, and indeed they resembled a range of white clouds rising from the horizon. They recalled to my mind the frontispiece of Rudbeck's _Lapponia Illustrata_. Mountains upon mountains rose before me in every direction. In a word, I now beheld the Lapland alps. Arriving in the evening at Kiomitis, I saw the sun set apparently on the summit of a high mountain called Harrevarto, situated over against the house of the parish clerk. This spectacle I considered as not one of the least of Nature's miracles, for what inhabitant of other countries would not wish to behold it? O Lord, how wonderful are thy works! _July 2._ At Kiomitis I rested during the whole of this day, Sunday. Here the beautiful corn was growing in great perfection in valleys between the snowy mountains. It had shot up so high as to be laid in some places by the rain. It had been sown on the 25th or 26th of May, as at Umoea. I found in abundance _Tripolium pratense_, _coronâ calyce breviori_, or _Aster folio non acri_, _flore purpureo_; (_Erigeron uniflorum_, _Fl. Lapp. n. 307. t. 9. f. 3_.) The same occurred with a white flower. Also _Euphrasia_ (_officinalis_) about its usual size, but with very small flowers; (a variety mentioned in the _Flora Lapponica, n. 247_, found likewise in Switzerland.) In the same neighbourhood grew the _Tetrahit_, both with small and large flowers, (_Galeopsis Tetrahit_, and _G. versicolor_, _Fl. Brit_.) _July 3._ Early this morning I went with Mr. Joachim Koch, quarter-master of the regiment stationed here, and Mr. Segar Swanberg, master of the mines, to the Kiuriwari, a high mountain half a mile from Kiomitis, where a silver mine had just been opened. The ore showed itself only in one cleft, whose sides it seemed to cement together.