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the ice gives way, the froft is diffolved, and a 
joyfull face of things returns. Immediately we 
fee 
Laplander eafily does without more light, as the fnow re- 
flects the rays that come from the ftars, and as the aurora 
borealis illuminates the air every night with a great variety 
of figures. The cold is fo great that forreigners are kept 
aloof, and even deterred from their molt happy woods. No 
part of our body is more eafily deftroyed by cold than the 
extremities of the limbs, which are moft remote from the 
fun of this microcofm, the heart. The kibes that happen 
to our hands, and feet, fo common in the northern parts 
of Sweden, prove this. In Lapland you will never fee fuch 
a thing, altho’ were we to judge by the fituation of the 
countrey we fhould imagine juft the contrary, efpecially as 
the people wear no fiockings, as we do, not only fingle but 
double, and triple. The Laplander guards himfelf againfl 
the cold in the following manner. He wears breeches made 
of rhen deer Ikins with the hair on, reaching down to his 
heels ; and (hoes made of the fame materials, the hairy 
part turned outwards. He puts into his fhoes Jlender- eared, 
broad-leaved cyperus gra/s, carex veficaria. Spec. PL that is cut 
in fummerand dryed. This he iirft combs, and rubs in his 
hands, and then places it in fuch a manner, that it not only 
covers his feet quite round, but his legs alfo; and being thus 
guarded, he is quite fecured againfl the intenfe cold. With 
this grafs they fluff their gloves likewife in order to 
preferve their hands. As this grafs keeps off the cold in 
winter, fo in fummer it hinders the feet from fweating, and 
at the fame time preferves their feet from being annoyed by 
firiking againfl ftones, &c. for their fhoes are very thin, 
being made, not of tanned leather, but the raw hide. It 
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