(50 TUT. LAPLAKD ALPS. 



latter are more generally used, without 

 being split, for basket-work. For various 

 articles of furniture the roots of Tall 

 (Scotch Fir, Vin us si/lvestris) are cut into 

 small boards. The wood of that tree 

 serves for inferior kinds of work, and, 

 amongst other things, for cheese-vats. 



The Laplanders scrape with a knife the 

 voung and tender stalks of the plant called 

 Jetja, {So7ichus alpimis^ Sm. Plant. Ic. 

 ^.21.) and eat them as a delicacy, like 

 those of the great Angelica {A. Archan- 

 gelica), which in the first year of their 

 growth are termed Fatno. ^ 



A Laplander always places himself at 

 the further part of his hut, and his guest 

 is seated next to him on a skin spread 

 on purpose. The master of the hut is by 

 this means enabled to reach the vessel in 

 which water is kept for drink, and which 

 always stands in the upper part of the hut. 



The river Hyttan flows in a perpetual 

 stream both summer and winter. Now if, 

 according to the general opinion, the water 

 of this river were derived from exhala- 



