6. Butter, made, as usual, of cream shaken till its oily part separates and floats.
7. Butter-milk, what remains after the butter is made.
8. Cheese, made of fresh milk heated, coagulated with calves' rennet, then deprived of its whey and dried.
9. This whey being boiled, the scum which rises is repeatedly collected, and called _walle_.
10. The remaining whey is used instead of milk or water in making bread.
11. The same fluid kept for a long time till it becomes viscid, is preserved through the winter, and called _syra_.
12. The whey of cheese boiled to a thick consistence is denominated _mesosmör_, and with meal is added to the preceding. See _p. 197_.
13. _Sötost_, or Sweet Cheese, is made of fresh milk boiled till it is partly wasted, and the remainder, of the thickness of pap or gruel, is eaten fresh.
14. _Mjölost_, Meal Cheese, is milk coagulated with rennet, mixed with meal, and boiled.
15. _Tatmjölk_, is fresh milk poured on leaves of Butterwort, _Pinguicula_, as already mentioned, _p_. 196, 197.
18. _Lapmjölk_, is milk mixed with sorrel leaves, (_R. Acetosa_,) and preserved till winter in the stomach of a reindeer, or some other animal.
19. The milk of the reindeer is placed in a cellar to prevent its quickly turning sour, in order to obtain the more cream; if it freezes, they thaw it again.
Midsummer day. Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and of spring, and for what is here in greater perfection than almost any where else in the world,--the air, the water, the verdure of the herbage, and the song of birds!
I walked out in the morning to botanize, but met with nothing curious, except _Arisarum_ of Rivinus (_Calla palustris_), the flower of which is described in my _Characteres Generici_; and the _Corallorrhiza_.
Here I was first informed of a disease which had made great ravages amongst the cattle in this neighbourhood, and which was of so pestilential a nature, that, though the animals were flayed even before they were cold, wherever their blood had come in contact with the human body, it had caused gangrenous spots and sores. Some persons had had both their hands swelled, and one his face, in consequence of the blood coming upon it. Many people had lost their lives by it, insomuch that nobody would now venture to flay any more of the cattle, but they contrived to bury them whole. As a preventative they had adopted the practice of swimming their cattle once a day, which they believed rendered the animals proof against the disorder.