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THROUGH LAPLAND. 93
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but that he-found himfelf by degrees fo involved in it, as to lofe
his way, and to be ignorant of the direction we had taken.
When we had any eminence to afcend, we looked at our ther-
mometer at the bottom, and found that it was colder by two de-
grees at the fummit of fome of them. The weather all the while
was very unfavourable and incommodious for travelling: it was
exceflively moift, and the clouds with which we were conftantly
furrounded, communicated fuch a degree of humidity to our tent,
baggage and clothes, that we could no where enjoy any comfort-
able repofe. We thought it better, without halting, to pufh for-
ward as well as we could. At length, by dint of perfeverance in
our fatiguing progrefs, we began to defcend the mountains. After
paffing by a cataract, dafhing perpendicularly from the fummit of
fome rocks, which was fed by the melting maffes of {now and the
moifture of the clouds that crept along the brows of the moun-
tains, we were prefented with the moft charming landfcapes. We
were ready to fancy ourfelves tranfported as by a magic rod into
another atmofphere, another country, another climate. On the
oppofite fide of thofe mountains, which are the Alps of Lapland,
all is on a gigantic fcale, all is rich and beautiful. Vegetation of
every kind is both abundant and luxuriant, the herbage thick, and
the trees large. Here they ftart up to view all at once in fuch
frequent and extenfive groupes, as are not to be feen any where in
any of the declivities of the fouthern chain of mountains. We
plunged into the depths of a wood where the grafs rofe to the
height of our knees: but I cannot exprefs the pleafure I felt at
feeing
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