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.