318 THE LAPLAND ALPS. 



The women here, as well as the men, 

 smoke tobacco, and indeed do almost 

 every thing but actually wear breeches. 

 The men dress the meat, while the women 

 employ themselves only in making cheese, 

 and other various preparations of milk. 

 Every kind of fish or meat is cooked by 

 the men ; and if the women happen not to 

 be at hand, even the cheese and milk fall 

 under their manap-ement. 



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The alps are destitute of human inha- 

 bitants in the winter season, because the 

 Laplanders are then obliged to seek more 

 woody parts of the country, where alone 

 they are able to find a sufficient quantity 

 of moss (hichen rangiferinus) to feed their 

 reindeer. On the alps there is not only a 

 want of wood, but the snow is covered 

 with too hard a frozen crust to be penetrated 

 so as to come at any thing beneath it. 



The poorest people only remain here as 

 long as possible, for the sake of catching 

 Ptarmigans {Tctrao Lagopus) ; which is 

 done in the following manner. 



