Lachesis Lapponica: Or, A Tour in Lapland, Now First Published from the Original Manuscript Journal of ... Linnaeus, Nide 2White and Cochrane, 1811 Account of travels of Carl von Linne in Lapland in 1732, translated from original Swedish manuscript. Includes descriptions of Lapps and of flora. |
Muita painoksia - Näytä kaikki
Yleiset termit ja lausekkeet
afterwards alpine alps animal August bark bear berries Betula nana birch boat boiled bread bridegroom Calix called calyx catch Celsius cheese cold cord Cornus suecica covered dwarf birch East Bothland eaten ells fathoms feet Finlanders fire fish Flora Lapponica flowers forests four grass grew grey Grey Seal hair half inches inhabitants journey July Kimi kind laid landers Laplanders Lapp latter leaves length Lichen Lichen rangiferinus Linnæus Lulea Lycksele meat Medelpad miles milk mountains neighbouring night Oestrus peasants Pinus sylvestris plant preter Quickjock reached reindeer skin river round Rubus Rubus saxatilis salmon salt scarcely scythe seal season serve shore side sledges Smoland sort sour Stræmming Sphagnum palustre spring spruce fir stem sticks Stone Bramble stones Suecica summer thick thread Tornea town turn umbels Umoea upper walmal cloth whole winter women wood
Suositut otteet
Sivu 113 - The fire was nearly extinguished in most of the spots we visited, except in ant-hills, and dry trunks of trees. After -we had travelled about half a quarter of a mile across one of these scenes of desolation, the wind began to blow with rather more force...
Sivu 22 - ... The inoculator, in truth, is the gad-fly, the tumours it causes are the pustules, and its larvae are the pus. — It is astonishing how dreadfully these poor animals in hot weather are terrified and injured by them: ten of these flies will put a herd of five hundred into the greatest agitation. They cannot stand still a minute, no not a moment, without changing their posture, puffing and blowing, sneezing and snorting, stamping and tossing continually ; every individual trembling and pushing...
Sivu 258 - ... language. Nor was my companion wanted less to assist me in carrying what was necessary, for I had sufficient incumbrances of my own, without being the bearer of our provisions into the bargain. On my first ascending these wild alps, I felt as if in a new world. Here were no forests to be seen, nothing but mountains upon mountains, larger and larger as I advanced, all covered with snow. No road, no tracks, nor any signs of inhabitants were visible. The verdure of summer seemed to shun this frozen...
Sivu 263 - I was reposing tranquilly on the side of the hill, busied only in loosening a stone which I wanted to examine, I heard the report of a gun at a small distance below. I was too far off to receive any hurt...
Sivu 278 - Charr (Salmo alpimis) is found in the lakes, and higher up all fishing ceases. 4. All mountains above this limit are called Fj'dll (Alps).
Sivu 114 - ... turn back. It seemed best to hasten forward in hopes of speedily reaching the outskirts of the wood, but in this we were disappointed. We ran as fast as we could, in order to avoid being crushed by the falling trees, some of which threatened us every minute. Sometimes the fall of a...
Sivu 32 - I was informed, that in this neighbourhood [an alpine ' district] the inoculated small-pox is remarkably fatal. If the ' patients have but seventy or eighty pustules, they die of it as ' of the plague: they fly to the mountains, when infected, and * die. The same is the case with the measles. It appears that '. both these diseases are aggravated by the violent cold, whence '• the patients die in so miserable a manner.
Sivu 112 - Several days ago the forests had been set on fire by lightning, and the flames raged at this time with great violence, owing to the drought of the season. I traversed a space, three quarters of a mile in extent, which was entirely burnt, so that the place, instead of appearing in her gay and verdant attire, was in deep sable : a spectacle more abhorrent to my feelings than to see her clad in the white livery of winter.
Sivu 281 - Quickjock at the elevation of 4100 feet above the sea; but nearer the highest ridge, and particularly on the Norway side of that ridge, at 3100 feet. Some few plants, with succulent leaves, are thinly scattered over the spongy brown surface of the ground, where the reflected heat is strongest, quite up to the line of uninterrupted snow. These are Saxifraga stellaris, rivularis and oppositifolia, Ranunculus nivalis and glacialis, Rumev digynus, Juncus curvatus * and Silene acaulis.
Sivu 128 - ... the space of sixty days. On the 24th of . the same month, Linnaeus observed a star, for the first time, since he had come within the Arctic circle, though there was not darkness enough to prevent reading or writing. At sun-rise, on the 3d of August, the marshes were all white with hoar-frost ; for, ' in the preceding night, winter had paid his first visit, and slept in the lap of the lovely Flora.