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THROUGH SWEDEN. 201
thefe iflands. Amongft the fea fowl are the colymbus, the peli-
can, four different forts of gulls, the didapper, the eider, and more
than a dozen other of the tribe of ducks.
Of amphibious animals are three fpecies of lizards, or newts,
frogs, &c. Amongft the fifh are found falmon, trout, cod, had-
dock, ling, perch, tench, pilchards, fprats, together with a con-
fiderable number of other kinds.
The infe&s found in Aland amount to the number of betwixt
feven and eight hundred different fpecies: among thefe we {hall
only make mention of one, and that on account of its very de-
ftractive qualities. You often find trees in great number which
have been killed by this fpecies of infect; and, what is {till more
diftrefling and harraffing, houfes newly built have been known to
fall into decay and ruin in a fhort time, entirely by the devafta-
tion of thefe pernicious animals.
The Alanders pay no great attention to the culture of bees.
Crawfifh are not very common in thefe iflands, and were firft
brought over by the queen dowager of Guftavus the firft.
The Flora Suecica reckons about fix hundred and eighty plants
that are indigenous in Aland and the neighbouring ifles ; of which
number one hundred and fifty are cryptogamia. Moft of the
trees common to Sweden are alfo found in Aland. Few minerals
are to be met with here ; and the mountains are formed chiefly
of a red kind of granite.
Voi. I. ; Dd TRAVELS
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