One of the Laplanders' dishes, called _Kappi_, or _Kappa-tialmas_, is prepared in the following manner. While the milk of the reindeer, intended for making cheese, is warm, before the rennet is added to it, a film rises to the top, which is taken off carefully with a spoon, and put into the bladder of a reindeer. This is hung up against the side of the hut to dry; after which it is eaten, being esteemed a great delicacy. They frequently mix some kind of berries with it when used. The fruit called _Hjortron_, (Cloud-berry, or _Rubus Chamæmorus_,) bruised and eaten with milk of the reindeer, is also a very palatable Lapland dish. The milk of this animal affords at least twice as much cheese in proportion as any other milk. Butter is very seldom made by these people, nor is cream ever used for that purpose, as it scarcely rises in sufficient quantity. Milk only is used, being agitated in a wooden vessel with a whisk. The butter is of a white colour.
Candles are not in use among the Laplanders, though the tallow of the reindeer is very fit for that purpose, notwithstanding its consistence being less firm than that of ordinary tallow. These people preserve it in bladders, and boil it for food. Each reindeer yields but a small quantity of tallow in proportion to its size, not more than a sheep; having none between the muscles, like oxen and other cattle, but only round them.
Viviparous Bistort (_Polygonum viviparum_) grew hereabouts two spans in height. The _Trientalis_ in moist situations had obtuse petals (see _Fl. Lapp. n. 139, [epsilon]_). The Water _Epilobium_ in this place had very broad leaves. (_E. palustre [beta]. Sp. Pl. 495._ _Fl. Lapp. n. 148._) _Geranium_ (_sylvaticum_) had sometimes a white flower with purple veins, and blue anthers; sometimes the petals, as well as anthers, were white.
In the afternoon I took leave of Hyttan, and, at the distance of a mile from thence, arrived at the mountain of _Wallavari_ (or _Hwallawari_), a quarter of a mile in height. When I reached this mountain, I seemed entering on a new world; and when I had ascended it, I scarcely knew whether I was in Asia or Africa, the soil, situation, and every one of the plants, being equally strange to me. Indeed I was now, for the first time, upon the Alps! Snowy mountains encompassed me on every side. I walked in snow, as if it had been the severest winter. All the rare plants that I had previously met with, and which had from time to time afforded me so much pleasure, were here as in miniature, and new ones in such profusion, that I was overcome with astonishment, thinking I had now found more than I should know what to do with.