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nances, amounts to fifteen dollars, copper 

 money. The Laplanders therefore content 

 themselves with a far more rude and simple 

 apparatus, consisting of such a wooden 

 bow made of birch, as I have already de- 

 scribed, with a string fitted to it. Or they 

 merely cut a branch of fir in the forest, 

 and with any bit of cord that happens to 

 come in their way, kill abundance of squir- 

 rels, holding the bow with their left hand, 

 and drawing it with their right by means of 

 a small cleft stick. Thus they will, as I 

 have witnessed, take successful aim at the 

 Emheriza nivalis^ or Snow Bunting, sitting- 

 en the tops of the most lofty pines» 



It is commonly reported that no clay is 

 to be found in Lapland, but I met with 

 some in two different places ; in each in- 

 stance indeed it was at the bottom of a 

 lake, as at Rondijaur and Sckalka trask, 

 the shores beins: of sand thous-h the bottom 



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was clay. 



Nets are set in the lakes in winter to 

 catch the Sijk fish (Salmo Lavaret us, or 



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