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346 TRAVELS
are corn, flour, falt, hemp, flax, woollen cloth, coarfe linens, ta-
’ bacco, and fpices.
In the winter feafon the merchants travel in their fledges to
different fairs, where they buy of the Laplanders their moft va-
luable furs, and give them in exchange fifh, meat, meal, and
brandy. Some of them proceed as far as Archangel, and others
to Alten in Norwegian Lapland. They carry on a contraband
trade, which is the moft profitable of all others; and as the boun-
daries which divide Norwegian from Swedifh Lapland, are but ill
guarded, they eafily convey from one fide to the other fuch articles
of commercial {peculation as they find moft advantageous. They
fend to Stockholm great loads of falted flefh of the rein-deer, and
an infinite number of birds. There are years in which they ex-
port thither to the amount of four thoufand birds, which in wine
ter will keep for fome months without fpoiling in the leaft.
A view. of the dum at midnight in Tornea, has always been
regarded as an objea fingularly interefting ; and hence a very
confiderable number of travellers have vifited this place. I was.
at pains to feek out and take down the names of fuch as are moft
diftinguifhed for their curiofity, literary labours, and merit, and
who have a right to be added to the lift of men of letters. Pere
haps it will not be unacceptable to my readers to fee fuch of the
names asI have been able to colle&t, which are the following:
I begin with the firft French traveller in this country
In the year
1681 Jean Franc Regnard, de Fefcourt & de Corberoui
1694
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