I remarked here water abounding with a red ochraceous sediment like arnotto (_Bixa Orellana_), such as I had before seen further south. It was chiefly in the bogs near Flaskesele water-fall that this ochre was to be found, and it stained the footsteps of passengers who passed over it. The colonists use it to paint their window-frames red.
The eatable moss of Norway (_Lichen islandicus_) was here of two kinds, the one broad and scattered, the other in thick tufts about three inches high. Both of them are reddish towards the root, and are certainly only varieties of each other.
Near the water side I met with the nest of a Sandpiper (_Tringa Hypoleucos_), which is one of the smallest of its genus. The nest was made of straw, and contained four eggs. The parent bird had flown away at my approach.
In the neighbouring forest grew a rare little leafy _Lichenoides_, of a fine saffron colour beneath, and bearing on the upper side flat oblong shields (_Lichen croceus_). Also the _Boletus perennis_ (described in _Fl. Lapp._), and a small white Agaric with gills alternately forked and undivided.
Adjoining to the cataract of Gransele the strata in the left-hand bank appeared as follows. Under the soil a brown sand, next to it some fathoms depth of white, below which were two fathoms of a purple sand, which lay upon small stones, and those upon larger ones on a level with the water.
The Little Eared Grebe (_Colymbus auritus_) was here occasionally quite black, or black with white spots under the wings. There was great abundance of Wild Ducks, those birds abounding as much on this side of Lycksele as on the other.
This part of the country is beautifully diversified with hills and valleys, clothed with forests of birch intermixed with fir, which were now reflected by the calm surface of the water.
In the _force_ or water-fall of Gransele are thirteen small islands.
I noticed on both sides of the river several summer huts of the Laplanders, in which they reside, for a short time together, during that season. A Laplander never remains more than a week on one spot, not only because of seeking fresh pasture for his reindeer, but because he cannot bear to stay long in a place. He drives the whole herd together, young and old, into the river, to swim over to the opposite shore, which these animals easily perform, though the stream is more than eight gunshots wide.