To this head I reduce all Pearls and Margarites, tho they be not stones. Some rivers in _Lapland_ produce these, therefore there are certain inhabitants appointed to dive and search for them, such as was _John Peterson_, mentioned by _S. Rheen_, who first found the Silver mine at _Nasafiæl_, he is called _een diamontzbrycare sampi partefoekiare_ _i. e._ one that finds and cuts pearls. Which (tho out of this Country) are not contemptible, it cannot be denied but that most of them want that liveliness which the oriental Pearls have, tho some are found as good, and in bigness and shape exceeding them. There are found some not come to perfection, half round and half flat, the round part being bright the other yellow and dull. I saw one a few years agoe brought out of _Bothnia_, so exactly round with such fresh colours, that a certain woman offered an 120. crowns for it, a Jeweller assured me that if he had another as good, he would not sell both for 500. They are bred not of such shells as are in the east broad, plane, and almost circular like Oister, but longer and hollower like Muscle shels, and not in the Sea but in Rivers, as may be gathered from _Olaus Magnus_. Those that are not come to perfection stick within the shells, but those that are perfect, are loose and drop out when the shell is opened. [Illustration] CHAP. XXXIV. _Of their Rivers._ Lapland if any Country is well watered with springs and rivers: the most noted are those from whence the particular marches and regions have their names, as _Umeao_, _Pitheao_, _Luhleao_, _Torneao_, and _Kimeao_, these spring from the _Norway_ mountains, and are encreased by several less rivers, unburdening themselves at last into the _Bothnick_ Sea. _Vindela_ fills _Umeao_ and _Skiellefle_ _Pitheao_, _Luhleao_ swallows a less river of the same name, and _Kimeao_ is encreased by _Avilaiocki_, which it self is no small river, for there are numberless rivulets which run into it. So _Luhleao_ which has a double stream, the lesser receives _Pyrrijaus Kardijoch_, and it is the same case with the greater called _Stoor-Luhleao_, and _Tornæo_ which is filled with the river _Kæungemæ Tængeleao_ and others. And so it is with all the great rivers, which upon that account are so impetuous and big, that they yield to few in the world: and because they run through hilly and uneven Countrys, and are stopt by several dams & weares, they force their way over precipices, with a great noise, and in those places are not navigable. Such is the sluce at _Lughlens_, called _Muskaumokke_, and another named _Sao_, likewise _Niometsaski_ i. e. an Hares leap, so called because the river _Lughla_ runs between two mountains so near that an Hare may leap over.