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tloned leafy sulphur-coloured Lichen (ni- 

 valis ?) in the greatest profusion. 



The marshy places abounded with Mus- 

 ens iectorius^ and Fotytrichnm, intermixed 

 with abundance of Black Whortle-berries. 



Wherever I came 1 could get nothing to 

 drink but water. 



Against the walls of the houses the 

 Agaric shaped like a horse's hoof {Boletus 

 igniarius) was hung up to serve as a pin- 

 cushion. 



As a protection against rain, the people 

 wear a broad horizontal collar made of 

 birch bark, fastened round the neck with 

 pins. 



The women wash their houses with a 

 kind of brush, made of twigs of spruce fir, 

 which they tie to the right foot, and go 

 backwards and forwards over the floor-^-. 



* I am ignorant what Linnaeus means by this de- 

 nomination. 



f This closely resembles the French method of 

 cleaning, or at least scrubbing, their rooms, except 

 that the Laplanders have the advantage in using water 

 as well as a brush. 



