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26 TRAVELS
be lefs pervious to the warmth of the atmofphere. The fnow was
entirely gone on Keimio, but we obferved it lying here and there
on mount Pallas, a circumftance probably owing to the difference
of their refpective elevations.
“We made various perambulations round this mountain in fearch
of birds and plants. We found a couple of groufe (tetrao cagopus
of Linn.) which were more than one half white; and alfo a
couple of emberiza nivalis, Linn. which were juft beginning to
change the colour of their plumage ; they were ftill almoft entirely
white.
The fifth of the lake are the following :
Salmo albula Cyprinus alburnus
Perca fluviatilis Efox lucius
Gadus lota
On our return homeward we examined the channel of the river
for fhells, in which it is not unufual to find pearls. We found
the fpecies called mya picforum, but the pearls were fcarcely vifible,
and in all of them fo very trifling, that we thought them not
worth our notice. Our attendants were aftonifhed at the zeal
with which we purfued our refearches; nor had they the fmalleft
conception of their utility. The parfon himfelf was at a lofs to
difcover what real advantages we could propofe to ourfelves by the
inveftigation of infeéts and plants. Since his library was deftroyed,
he had found that he could eafily difpenfe with divinity, and fan-
cied he had difcovered that divinity, viewed as a {cience, was en-
tirely ufelefs, and that the fciences in general were good for no-
thing
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