_Of their Mountains._
Their land which I treat of last, is not in the same condition all
over, for that which is near _Bothnia_ is wholsomer and more fertile
for all sort of pot-herbs, as those can witness who have made gardens
in both soils. They found that some places would bear coleworts,
raperoots, parsnips, radishes and the like. In other places by reason
of the abundance of rocks and rivers, the ground is too moist and
stony, and sandy in many places, which being scattered by the wind
covers the ground like snow, such are those places near the mountains
of _Norway_. These sands make a very dangerous passage for travellors,
especially when they are covered with snow, because then they cannot
tell what they are to avoid, somtimes falling in and being overwhelmed.
Towards _Norway_, are very high mountains which the _Swedes_ call
_Fiæl_ the _Laplanders_ _Tudderi_. _Cluverius_ calleth the top of the
mountains _Sevo_ which he took from _Pliny_ l. 4. c. 13. By _Adamus_
they are called _Riphæi_, but he was to careless in looking over
_Pliny_, _Solinus_, and _Orosius_. But whatever the name is, what _Pliny_
saith is true of the mountain, that it is no less than the _Riphæan;_
the top is perpetually covered with snow. Moreover the ascent and rise
of this mount is thus described by _Pet. Nevren_: the mountain which
separates _Norway_ from _Lappia_ begins to rise about _Zemptland_;
thence with continued ascent towards the north it reaches a hundred
miles, till it comes to _Titusfiord_, which is a bay of the frozen
sea. By this mountain the provinces of _Swedeland_ are divided from
_Norway_, as by a wall designed by nature herself. But altho these
mountains are one continued tract, yet they swell higher in some places
than others, called by these distinct names, which _Samuel Rheen_
mentions. _Waesawaari, Skipoive, Nasawari, Ceruioiue, Kioldawaari,
Niottuswagg, Keidtkiwaari, Zeknawaari, Fierrowaari, Cardawaari,
Steikawaari, Skalopacht, Darrawaari, Woggousaari, Niynnas, Kaskaoiue,
Wallawaari, Skieldawaari, Harrawaari, Portawaari, Kafla, Seggock
Ultivis._ In like manner there are many other of their names in the
other parts of this Country, but because it is hard to meet with them
all, and not so much to our purpose, wee’l end now.