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bear and every other bugbear, than the biggest
fleet of ironclads, or any other armaments we can
possibly maintain, over and above the modest army
and navy, &c., that might have been kept up for
the other two hundred and fifty millions which I
suppose to have remained for immediate defensive
expenditure.
After visiting the fortress and the stokfisk drying
grounds, we make an excursion to an island lying
to the north-east of the town, which, from a
distance, appears to be lightly sprinkled with snow.
On reaching it we find that this is due to the white
blossoms of the moltebeer growing in wild
luxuriance on the mossy floor of the island, which is
kept as a reserve for this fruit, and also as a
breeding place for the eider-duck.
Strict regulations are enforced to prevent these
interesting animals from being disturbed, but we
were allowed to visit the island with a guide, and
further permitted to see one of the nests with the
eggs in it. I was surprised at the quantity of
down that forms a single nest. It measured more
than a foot across, or if spread out, the down would
form a mat of above fifteen inches square, i. e. 225
square inches, and when uncompressed, nearly
two inches thick. I should estimate the whole at
about 400 cubic inches of down in its natural loose
state, compressible of course to a very much smaller
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