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CONCERNING LAPLAND. 243
engage in that occupation during the time they ftay. In winter,
when the lakes and rivers are clofely bound up with ice, they
contrive, neverthelefs, to purfue the avocation of fifhing ; and
even take confiderable quantities, by cutting holes in the ice, and
putting their nets through them into the water under the ice.
The Laplanders ufe, for their nets, the bark of the birch-tree
inftead of cork; andas they grow no hemp, they form their ropes
and lines of the finews of the rein-deer.
The river Tana takes its rife in the diftant mountains of Lap-
land, runs through Eaft Finmark, and after receiving in its courfe
feveral {mall {treams and torrents from the mountains, at length
empties itfelf with a very rapid current into the fea at a bay to
which it gives its name: this river is remarkable for producing
falmon of an extraordinary fize and rich flavour. The falmon
fifhery begins here early in the fpring, and is over at the end of
the fecond week after Midfummer-day.* Large quantities of
falmon are alfo taken in the riven Alten in Weft Finmark : this
river likewife gives name to the bay in which it meets the fea.
* It may not be amifs to {pecify the genus /a/ms, as it is found in that country,
according to a communication from my valuable friend Dr. Quenzel. It is as
follows :
Salmo Salar, the common falmon, which goes up the rivers in fummer for the
purpofe of depofiting its fpawn.
Salmo Alpinus is alfo found in the lake of Wennern in Sweden.
Salmo Lavaretus, called fk by the Swedes, is caught at the cataracts when it is at-
tempting to mount up.
Salmo Thymallus: harr in Swedifh. It is alfo to be met with in the rivers of
Westrobothnia and Angermania.
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