LULEAN LAPLAND. 89 



I was told their intention was that the 

 brandy might not prove hurtful either to 

 the head or breast. 



Some people here were regaling them- 

 selves with fresh fish, of the kind lately 

 mentioned [Sab?io Albula), which having 

 boiled into a mass like pap or flummery, 

 they were eating out of their hands. 



The dress of the Laplanders is, in one 

 particular at least, very wisely contrived. 

 Their thick collars effectually protect the 

 throat and breast, which being furnished 

 with numerous nerves and small muscles, 

 and being the seat of the windpipe and of 

 many principal veins and arteries, are very 

 important and susceptible parts. The neck 

 moreover, from its slender shape, is pe- 

 culiarly exposed to cold. Hence the pro- 

 tection of clothing is found very necessary 

 to the parts in question. For want of it 

 our young women suffer much injury, which 

 our youths avoid by running into the con- 

 trary extreme of tying their neckcloths 



