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CHAP. XXXV.
Of their Mountains.
Their land which I treat of last, is not in the same condition all over,
for that which is near Bothnia is wholsomer and more fertile for all
sort of pot-herbs, as those can witness who have made gardens in both soils.
They found that some places would bear coleworts, raperoots, parsnips,
radishes and the like. In other places by reason of the abundance of rocks and
rivers, the ground is too moist and stony, and sandy in many places, which being
scattered by the wind covers the ground like snow, such are those places near
the mountains of Norway. These sands make a very dangerous passage for
travellors, especially when they are covered with snow, because then they
cannot tell what they are to avoid, somtimes falling in and being
overwhelmed. Towards Norway, are very high mountains which the Swedes call Fiæl
the Laplanders Tudderi. Cluverius calleth the top of the mountains Sevo which
he took from Pliny l. 4. c. 13. By Adamus they are called Riphæi, but he was
to careless in looking over Pliny, Solinus, and Orosius. But whatever the name
is, what Pliny saith is true of the mountain, that it is no less than the
Riphæan; the top is perpetually covered with snow. Moreover the ascent and rise
of this mount is thus described by Pet. Nevren: the mountain which separates
Norway from Lappia begins to rise about Zemptland; thence with continued
ascent towards the north it reaches a hundred miles, till it comes to
Titusfiord, which is a bay of the frozen sea. By this mountain the provinces of
Swedeland are divided from Norway, as by a wall designed by nature herself. But
altho these mountains are one continued tract, yet they swell higher in some
places than others, called by these distinct names, which Samuel Rheen
mentions. Waesawaari, Skipoive, Nasawari, Ceruioiue, Kioldawaari,
Niottuswagg, Keidtkiwaari, Zeknawaari, Fierrowaari, Cardawaari, Steikawaari,
Skalopacht, Darrawaari, Woggousaari, Niynnas, Kaskaoiue, Wallawaari,
Skieldawaari, Harrawaari, Portawaari, Kafla, Seggock Vltivis. In like
manner there are many other of their names in the other parts of this Country,
but because it is hard to meet with them all, and not so much to our
pupose, wee’l end now.
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