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the ice gives way, the froft is diflblved, and a 



joyfiill face of things returns. Immediately we 



fee 



Laplander eafily does without more Ught, as the fnow re- 

 fleds the rays that come from the ftars, and as the aurora 

 torealis illuminates the air every night with a great variety 

 of figures. The cold is fo great that forreigners are kept 

 aloof, and even deterred from their moft happy woods. No 

 part of our body is more eafily deflroyed by cold than the 

 extremities of the limbs, which are moft remote from the 

 fun of this microcofm, the heart. The kibes that happen 

 to our hands, and feet, fo common in the northern parts 

 of Sweden, prove this. In Lapland you will never fee fuch 

 a thing, altho' were we to judge by the fituation of the 

 countrey we fhould imagine juft the contrary, efpecially as 

 the people wear no ftockings, as we do, not only fmgle but 

 double, and triple. The Laplander guards himfelf againft 

 the cold in the following manner. He wears breeches made 

 of rhen deer fkins with the hair on, reaching down to his 

 heels ; and fhoes made of the fame materials, the hairy 

 part turned outwards. He puts into his flioes Jlender-eared 

 hroad-kanjed cyperus grafsy carex veficaria. Spec, PI. that is cut 

 in fummeranddryed. This he firft combs, and rubs in his 

 hands, and then places it in fuch a manner, that it not only 

 covers his feet quite round, but his legs alfo; and being thus 

 guarded, he is quite fecured againft the intenfe cold. With 

 this grafs they ftuiF their gloves likewife in order to 

 preferve their hands. As this grafs keeps off the cold in 

 winter, fo in fummer it hinders the feet from fweating, and 

 at the fame time preferves their feet from being annoyed by 

 ftriking againfi ftones, &c. for their Hioes are very thin, 

 bein<y made, not of tanned leather, but the raw hide. It 



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