Hayard Caylor in the “ Morthern Land,”

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(vg| TEN a young man, Linneus travelled
VN] over the greater part of Lapland, skirting
the boundaries of Norway. During this
journey he mentions, as one of the most
surprising and admirable sights he had ever beheld,
the phenomenon called The Midnight Sun. “1
proceeded,” he says, “ with all haste, in order, if it
were possible, to reach the Alps of Lulean Lap-
land in time to see the sun above the horizon at
midnight, which is beheld there to the best advan-
tage. I reached those mountains shortly after
Midsummer-day, and on my first ascending those
wild Alps I felt asif I were ina new world. TIfere
were no forests to be seen, but mountains upon
mountains, larger and larger as I advanced, all
covered with snow. No roads, no tracts, nor any
sion of inhabitants, were visible. The dechning
sun never disappeared sufficiently to allow any
cooling shade; and by climbing to the more eleyated