Tjåmotis

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(§547) While we were at Skalka and about 7 miles from Tjåmotis, a gap between the mountains showed up to the north-west and through it the mountains between 70 and 150 miles away shone white with snow as if they were no more than 7 miles away. Just as when white wisps of cloud rise above the horizon, their peaks rose towards the sky exactly as depicted in form and colour on the frontispiece of Rudbeck's 'Lapponia Illustrata'. There was nothing but hill upon hill. In short, I beheld the mountains.

(§548) I reached TJÅMOTIS in the evening. Here, above a high mountain called Harrevarto which lay right opposite the parish clerk's house, I saw the midnight sun and, to my mind, it is far from being the least of nature's miracles. What traveller from afar would not want to see it? O Lord, how unfathomable are thy works!

(§549) 2nd. Tjåmotis. I spent Sunday resting here. I saw how splendid the beautiful shoots of barley looked among the snowy mountains. The stalks were so tall that they were leaning over. This barley was sown on the 25th or 26th May, just as in Umeå.

(§857) The water in the lake at Tjåmotis was very whitish, as though mixed with milk. They called it chalk-water (because of its colour, not because of its cause or origin) and said that it came from the mountains. This river joins the main river at Tjåmotis and makes the water whitish for 30 to 35 miles. I saw it at Virijaure.

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