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law established, the Laplanders and colo- 

 nists usually attend div ine service at church, 

 where they stay till the holidays are over, 

 and are accommodated in huts adjoining 

 to the sacred edifice. Besides the times 

 above mentioned, the colonists go to church 

 on Lady-day, Midsummer, Michaelmas, 

 and the 21st of September or St. Matthew's 

 day. Those who live at no great distance 

 from a church, attend there every other 

 Sunday, to hear a sermon. On the inter- 

 mediate Sundays, prayers are read to the 

 members of each family at home. 



At Whitsuntide this year no Laplander 

 was at church, the pikes happening to 

 spawn just at that time. This fishery con- 

 stitutes the chief trade of these people, and 

 they were therefore now, for the most part, 

 dispersed among the alps, each in his own 

 tract, in pursuit of this object. 



I observed the forests to consist chiefly 

 of Fir and Birch. Where woods of the 

 former had been burnt down, the latter 

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