THROUGH LAPLAND. 
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CHAPTER VIII. 
Situation of Kautokeino—Boundary between the Swedifh and Danifh 
Territories—An Infance of juft Reafoning on a political Topic —- 
Bat ■on Hermelins Maps of Sweden , Finland, and Lapland — Diffi¬ 
culty of obtaining good Maps of thofe Countries : thofe which exijl 
are far from being accurate—Diverfty of Names given to thefame 
Places, and confujion occafoned by this Circuniffance—Anecdotes of 
the School-mafer of Kautokeino—Diffridl or Parifh of Kautokeino 
—Population and Inhabitants—Wandering Laplanders, and thofe 
that have fxed Habitations—Their Mode of Life—Chafe of the 
wild Rein-deer—Annual Fair at Kautokeino, and Traffic carried 
on—Cattle and Sheep—Low Effimation in which the latter are 
held—Departure from Kautokeino—State of the 'Weather and the 
Thermometer—Journey purfued in Boats—The River Alien 1 
beautiful Scenery — Mufquetoes. 
HP ILL our arrival, the village of Kautokeino was confidered as 
wholly infulated in the fummer feafon, and inacceffible to 
travellers. The furrounding diftridt is defcribed in the Danifli 
book of geography as a country confifting of mountains, feparated 
from each other by dangerous and impaffable morafles. It was 
this 
