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horizon for two months in the winter, and is then 

 cut off from them for a further considerable time by 

 this hill (which is 1420 feet high), the good people 

 regard it with no friendly feelings. Of the inhabi- 

 tants of the island, the Lapps are perhaps the most 

 interesting. These are of two kinds mountain 

 Lapps, and sea or fisher Lapps. The mountain 

 Lapps are very few in number, and depending as 

 they do for every necessity of life upon their roam- 

 ing herds of reindeer, their habits are necessarily 

 nomadic. The reindeer supplies these diminutive 

 mountaineers with food and clothing, and with all 

 the Aveapons and utensils which are needed in their 

 simple life, and is besides their beast of burden and 

 sledge-drawer. The fisher Lapps are only met with 

 on the coasts, and indeed seldom leave their boats. 

 They are far more numerous than their brethren of 

 the mountains, living as they do on the products of 

 that Norwegian mine of wealth, the sea. They also 

 are small people, and as miserable-looking as they are 

 small. Whilst the mountain Lapps have the full use 

 of their limbs, and are healthy and vigorous, the sea 

 Lapps are doubled up in body, weak -legged, and 

 sickly-looking, taking advantage, when on land, of 

 every opportunity to support themselves against any- 

 thing which may be at hand to relieve their legs of 

 part of the weight of their bodies. An interesting 

 speculation presents itself as to what manner of man 

 will in future ages be developed from the fisher 



