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264 TRAVELS
able, as are thofe alfo of the weft and north-weft. The eaft and ©
north-eaft winds are in general warm in fpring, becaufe thofe
winds, after croffing the White Sea, traverfe more than thirty
Swedith aniles of land, covered with woods and moraffes, warmed
by the influence of the fun and of vegetation. But in the au-
tumn the fame winds, after the marfhes are frozen, are very cold.
The frofts of the night during the fummer come on towards
the end of Auguft, and fometimes even in July, as the froft in
1795, which was very fevere on the 25th of July, and {fpoiled
all the legumens and the more delicate culinary vegetables.
Notwithftanding the coldnefs of the climate the animals thrive
very well, and vegetation is more rapid here than in any other
place. There are inftances of grain having been fown and reaped
in the fpace of fix weeks. The principal caufe of this pheno-
menon is the fine nights, or rather the continual prefence of the
fun.
Mr. Julin, whofe name I hall have occafion to mention in the
following pages, communicated to me fome interefting obfer-
vations on the climate of Uleéborg, which I think will not be
deemed unworthy, of a place at the end of this chapter.
Some
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