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THROUGH LAPLAND. "3
countries ; every diftrict and corner of which have been meafured,
and drawn with the greateft accuracy and precifion. Baron Her-
melin’s maps are not compofed with all the rigour of trigonome-
try; they are formed from views by the eye, in the fame manner
as the {ketches of ordinary furveyors or draught{men, who afcend
to the top of a particular mountain, and thence obtain a profpec
of the circumjacent country from which they make their draw-
ings. Befides this, the natives are confulted, who furnifh accounts
of different matters within their knowledge, and particularly of
the names of hills, rivers, towns, and other objects. Lapland, if
we comprehend under it all thofe parts fo named in the wide ex-
tent belonging to Sweden, Denmark, and Ruffia, is a country
of fuch immenfe fpace, that it would be too great an enterprize
to attempt making an accurate meafurement of even the frontiers
of its different diftrits. Moreover, the fummer in that climate
is fo fhort, the fatigue of penetrating through its moraffes and
furmounting other obftacles fo great, and the operations of a juft
trigonometrical furvey would require fuch a length of time and
number of perfons, that there is but little hope of its being foon,
or ever accomplifhed. As to the winter feafon, the moft proper
for travelling in thofe northern and uncultivated countries, it in-
volves the difadvantage of obfcurity and darknefs; and the fnow
every where covering the furface of the earth, rivers, and lakes,
to the depth of feveral yards, and prefenting in all places an uni-
formity of appearance, makes it impoffible for the geographer to
difcriminate land from water.
Vot. II. E With
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