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other vegetable is to be had : with this too they will 
even become fat. The riches of the Laplanders confift 
in their number of thefe cattle : they are cloathed 
with their fkins, fed with their flefh, and from their 
milk they make both butter and cneeie. Nature, 
by the inclemency of their feafons, has almoft denied 
them the cultivation of their earth: they neither 
fow nor reap; but live a perpetual migratory life, 
tending their flocks of rein-deer, upon which their 
whole care is centered and employed. 
The milk of the rein-deer is very remarkably fat 
and rich: it taftes indeed like cow’s milk, with 
which forne butter, and a fmall quantity of fat or 
fuet, has been intimately united. Di. Hallei (2 ) 
fufpe&s, that this richnefs of the milk is owing to 
the animals feeding upon this mofs. Moft of the 
plants of this family are of an aftringent quality, 
which indeed they manifeft to the tafte. This al- 
tringency of their food will doubtlefs contribute 
much to that efFed:. . 
The rein-deer are not the only animals that will 
feed upon the coralline mofs. The Novaccolae (3) 
gather vaft quantities of it to fodder their oxen with 
in the winter. They take the opportunity of raking it 
together in the rainy feafons, when it is tough ; for 
in dry weather it eafily crumbles into powder. This 
they moiflen with a little water in the winter feafon 
when they ufe it, and find it excellent fodder. 
(2) Enum. Stirp. Helv. p. 69. N°. 38. 
(-2) The Novaccolae are a people originally lprung from the 
Finlanders : they fixed t'nemfelves in Lapland not long fince, and 
traffick with the old inhabitants. 
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