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us in Sweden, sufficiently indicate this. In no part 

 of Lapland do we find the inhabitants affected with 

 chilblains, though in respect to the country one would 

 expect them to be peculiarly subject to this disease, 

 especially as they wear no stockings, while we clothe 

 ourselves in one, two, and even tree pair. 



<c A Laplander preserves himself from the violence 

 of cold in the following manner ; he wears trowsers, 

 made of the rough skin of the Rein-deer, which reach 

 to bis ankles, and shoes made of the same material, 

 the hair turned outward ; this grass, cut down in the 

 summer, dried, rubbed betwixt the hands, and after- 

 wards combed and carded, he puts into his shoes, 

 so as not only wholly to enwarp his feet, but the 

 lower part of his legs also, which, thus defended, 

 never suffer from the severest cold; with this grass 

 he also fills his hairy gloves to preserve his hands ; 

 and thus are those hardy people enabled to bear the 

 frost. 



" As this grass in the winter drives away cold, so 

 in the summer it checks the perspiration of the feet, 

 and preserves them from being injured by stones in 

 travelling, for their shoes are extremely thin, being 

 made of uutanned skins. It is difficult to learn, 

 on inquiry, what the particular species of grass is 

 which is thus in request with these people, as some 

 use one sort, and some another. It is, however, 

 always a species of Carex, and, we understood, chiefly 

 this." 



