Coughs are of very rare occurrence, notwithstanding the constant practice of drinking snow- and ice-water, even after swallowing pure grease or fat, which perhaps may prevent its bad consequences. However this may be, the Laplanders seldom die from catching cold. Cases of _phthisis_, or consumption, do indeed now and then occur among them, and pleurisies are very common, especially in spring and autumn. Lumbago, or pain in the back, is most prevalent during the summer. For this, as I have already mentioned, _vol._ 1. _p._ 274, actual cautery, by means of their _toule_, or _moxa_, is often applied. Bleeding at the nose chiefly happens among those Lapland women who are in the service of the colonists, and who, in consequence of certain obstructions, are subject also to œdematous swellings of the feet. I have not heard of a single instance of jaundice. Some elderly people are afflicted with asthma; and hoarsenesses now and then occur in the winter and spring. The stone and gout are entirely unknown amongst the Laplanders. Swellings of the lower extremities are uncommon, as these people are in the habit of swathing their legs, which renders them all slender and well shaped. All dropsical complaints indeed are very rare, though I did meet with one case of this kind. Of _tenesmus_ I happened to hear of but a single instance, though the Laplanders eat so much cheese and drink water. Disorders in the stomach are not uncommon, which are frequently attended with _diarrhœa_, and in some years this disease is contagious. The specimens of minerals which I had collected in the course of my tour were now become numerous, and consisted of the following articles. 1. An alum, as I presume, of a club shape, without any taste, seeming as it were dissolved in fluor, from the mountains to the north of the lake Skalk, near Kiomitis. (See _vol._ 1. _p._ 267.) 2. Native alum in its own matrix; from the same place. (_Alumen nativum._ _Syst. Nat._ _vol._ 3. 101). 3. Native alum, rough and green, separate from its matrix; from the same mountains. 4. Alum like the former in appearance, but not salt, perhaps a calcareous stone; found not far from the same place. 5. Various alpine micaceous stones. 6. Marle from Lapland. 7. Quartz from Lapland. 8. Silver ore from Kiurivari. 9. Silver ore from Nasaphiel in Pithœan Lapland. 10. Sandstone containing three per cent. of iron. 11. Black slate from the alps. 12. Petrified corals from Norway. 13. Iridescent fluors from the alps.