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444 ACCOUNT OF DANISH LAPLAND BY LEEMS.
falmon ; fuch as above others the river Neida, running by the weftern fide of the bay
of Varangria. Its {pring is to be looked for.in the mountains of Ruffia, but its mouth.
in the bay of Kiofiorden where the ifland of Kio is fiuated, in which the Laplanders who
dwell on the river Neida ufually take up their {tations when fifhing in the fea, while the
time-that is fit for taking falmon is approaching. Each bank of this river is fhaded
with birch-trees, luxuriant with branches. In the upper part is a cataract, nigh which
the Laplanders approaching take falmon with a net, anda little higher, in weirs. To
keep thefe weirs in repair they muft not only crofs the water, but alfo go under it
as divers. ‘Ten falmon formerly coft-one thaler ; what they fell for to-day I cannot
fay.
On the eaftern fide of the fame bay is a river, commonly called Jacobs-Elven, that
is, Jacob’s river. It is the fame which flows from the very celebrated lake Indiager,
and contains no fmall quantity of falmon. ‘The monks, to whom the fifhery formerly
belonged, took care the falmon fhould be tranfported to Cola, a town in Ruffia, and
fold to the Dutch trading there. There are more rivers that flow on the fame fide of
the faid bay, not without note for their falmon fifhery.
On the other fide of the bay of Varanger a variety of rivers flow, which the falmon
enter ata ftated feafon of the year, fuch as, 1. Jacobs-Elven, that is, the river of Jacob,
near the promontory inne Naes, which is faid to run along the valley, delightful and
fhaded with an abundance of herbage and branching trees, and to contain a great
quantity of falmon. The governors of Finmark formerly fhut up this river with weirs,
having brought builders fit for this work from Malmis, a city of Ruffia. 02. Komag
Elven, that is, the river Komag, which is faid to be at the diftance of one mile from
Kivergia. 3. Sylteviig-Elven, large and very fifhy; alfo Kongsford-Elven, Bersford-
Elven, Bosfiord-Elven, Sandfords-Elven, and Langfiord-Elven, all of which, though with
fome difference, are faid to contain falmon. On the fame fide of Porfanger bay
are rivers abounding with a great quantity of trout, as the Beer Botnens Ely, which
falmon alfo vifit, but ufually fmall; Biergebne Elven, Thomas Elven, Fabus Elven,
Kalnaes Elven, and others abounding in trout, gilt heads, and other fmall fifh, which
the Laplanders call Vacjek. They catch fifh of this fort living inftreams, in a {mall loop
af fiender twifted ofier. Befides the river Alten, the principal of weftemn Finmark,
other leffler ones are found inthe bay of Alten; fuch as Borfe-Jok, Furnaes-Jok,
Dakko-Jok, Dalme-Jok, Gaidifh-Jok, Gavouna-Jok, Halfe-Jok, Rain-Jok, Skirve-Jok,
and Falle-Jok ; the laft fix of thefe rivers contain trout and falmon, but they are {mall
and few. On the firft of the faid rivers, called Borfe-Jok, aretwo mills built, the one
for fawing, the other for grinding corn; on the fecond alfo is one, and onthe laft
there are two. But it is to be obferved, that the ufe of mills is new in this part of Fin-
mark ; certainly it was altogether unknown a few years back. Wood was cleft in Finmark
into pieces or beams formerly, not by fawing mills, but by hatchets only, by which —
mode of cutting only two pieces or beams were made from any piece of timber however
large and ftrong, when, by the aid of the faw, even fix may be made from the fame
piece of timber. Almoft all corn provifion ground into flour was formerly imported
by the inhabitants, and is partly obtained fo even to this day, yet in fuch a manner,
that no {mall portion of corn to be ground on the above mills is yearly at the fame time
brought in. In the bay of weftern Finmark, commonly called Repper Morden, is a
river remarkable for falmon; and another in the bay of Porfanger flowing from the
very celebrated lake Leuneje-Jauvre, of which we fhall fpeak hereafter. In this river
many falmon are taken, yet more could be taken if greater care and dexterity were
applied. 10
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