Mountains
The range
Toward Norway the mountains are high. The Swedes call them Fiæl, and the Laplanders Tudderi. The top is always under snow. Petrus Nevren says the mountain that separates Norway from Lappia begins to rise about Zemptland and continues a hundred miles north to a bay the book calls Titusfiord. It is a wall, by nature, between Sweden and Norway. The bare tops the year page calls Doffrini are there. Samuel Rheen gives a long row of names. It is not copied. (Schefferus 1674)
Sand and gardens
Near the mountains of Norway the sand is blown like snow. Under snow a traveller cannot see what to avoid, and may sink in. Near the Bothnian Sea the ground is kinder to a garden. Coleworts, turnips, parsnips, and radishes have been grown there. Elsewhere stone, wet, and sand make the ground otherwise. (Schefferus 1674)