The Laplanders consult several natural objects by way of compass as they travel.
1. Large Pine-trees, which bear more copious branches on their southern side than towards the north.
2. Ant-hills, the south sides of which bear grass, the northern whortle-berries.
3. Aspen trees, whose bark is rough on the north side, smooth on the opposite part.
4. Old withered Pines are clothed, on the north side, with the black Usnea, or filamentous Lichen (L. jubatus).
By such marks as these they are able to find their way through pathless forests. Have we any guides so certain?
When these people kill any wild reindeer with fire-arms in summer, they lodge the carcase in a cold cellar, and cut it up as they want it for provision.
I observed a curious kind of lime-stone burnt at Kimi, Tornea, and other places round the neighbouring sea-coast.