in high Northern Latitudes. 99 
order to fave expence and room in purchafing 
and flowing vegetable provifion, compofe half 
their crews of natives of Kamtfchatka, becaufe 
thefe people are able to preferve themfelves from 
the fcurvy with animal food only , by abftaining 
from the vfe of fait.” 
Laftly, in the excellent oration of Linnaeus, 
On the advantages of travelling in one s own country , 
printed in the third volume of the Am*nitates 
Academic*, it is afferted, “ that the Laplanders 
live without corn and wine, without fait and 
every kind of artificial liquor, on water and 
fiefh alone, and food prepared from them j and 
yet are entirely free from the fcurvy.” * 
Having thus flated the fadls which have fallen 
in my way relative to this fubjedt, I proceed to 
a comparifon of their feveral circumftances, and 
fome remarks on the general refult. 
The fcurvy appears to be the difeafe peculiarly 
dreaded and fatal in all the above-related attempts 
to winter in extremely cold climates. Whether 
the circumfiance of cold itfelf, or the want of 
proper food, occafioned by it, principally con¬ 
duces to the generation of this difeafe, is a point 
not clearly afcertained. From the preceding 
* “ In Lapplandia obfervabit homines abfque Cerere & 
Baccho, abfque fale & potu omni artificiali, aqua tantum 
& came, & quae ab his praeparantur, conrentos vivere. 
“ Quare Norlandi, ut plurimum, fcorbuto fint infedli; Sc 
cur Lappones, contra, hujus morbi prorfus expertes?” 
H i narrations. 
