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318 GENERAL REMARKS
SECTION XXVII.
Some Ob/fervations relative to the Climate and Natural Hiftory of
Lapland.
HE materials which I have collected on the fubject of Lap-
land, are fo numerous and of fo various a nature, that I
might have confiderably increafed the bulk of this work if I had
chofen to incorporate in it every thing I poffefs. But I fhould
perhaps have abufed the patience of the reader, if I had extended
my remarks any farther than I have already done. I think it,
therefore, better to keep back what remains, and to produce it at
fome future period, if a fufficient degree of approbation encourage
me to fuch an undertaking. I cannot, however, at prefent take
my leave without communicating the following table, as an au-
thentic piece of information, which may afford fome light refpect-
ing the climate of thofe northern diftricts, through which I have
carried the reader in the foregoing pages. ‘The place to which it
refers is Utsjéck7, upon the river Tana, in Lappmark, fituated under
69 degrees 53 minutes north latitude; and perhaps no obferva-
tions of the kind have ever been made farther to the northward.
This table was given me by Mr. Julin, who had fuggefted the
idea of making fimilar remarks to the Rev. Mr. Caftrein (brother
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