A reddish Cantharis, with black antennæ, and light grey cases to the wings.
I now entered the territory of Pithoea. It rained about eleven o'clock for half an hour, otherwise the day was fine.
[40] Linnæus, in the Amœnitates Academicæ, says the Swedish summer is in its highest beauty when "the fresh shoots of the fir illuminate the woods."
[41] Linnæus has drawn this fanciful analogy further in his Flora Lapponica. "At length," says he, "comes Perseus in the shape of Summer, dries up the surrounding water and destroys the monsters, rendering the damsel a fruitful mother, who then carries her head (the capsule) erect."
[42] Here the Linnæan system of Mammalia seems first to have occurred to the mind of its author.
PITHOEA.
June 13.
A very bright and calm day. The great Myrgiolingen[43] was flying in the marshes.
The country here is rather flat, yet now and then considerable hills present themselves, not very high indeed, but abounding in steep declivities. The stones about these hills were variegated, and as if inlaid, glittering with talc; many of them rusty, and spontaneously corroded. On one spot, in the road itself, is produced a brown pale-purplish earth, which is very likely to be useful for painting. The hill where this earth or ochre is found is called Hógmarkbœrget.