THROUGH LAPLAND. 
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We left this cabin to purfue our voyage ; but after proceeding 
five or fix Englifh miles, we were obliged by the wind again to 
land, when we determined to take advantage of this interval to 
make an excurfion into the interior of the country, in order to try 
if we could meet with any thing remarkable, and particularly, 
whether we could not get a fight of fome wandering Laplanders 
with their rein-deer and their tents. We travelled feven or eight 
Englifh miles on foot, and found here and there, amidfl thofe 
mountains, delicious fpots and vallies, enclofed by hills that were 
covered with birch and fome other trees. We enjoyed the fhade, 
and the frefhnefs of the brooks or rivulets that watered the vallies. 
We at lafl came to a mountain Laplander’s tent, and our curiofity 
was fatisfied : this tent was of a conical form, and not fhaped as 
tents are in general. They put together feveral polls or beams 
ef wood, frefh cut down, flicking them with one end in the 
ground, and making them meet at the top. Thefe beams they 
covered all round with pieces of woollen cloth, which they faflened 
to one another. The diameter of the tent we faw at the bale 
w'as eight Englifh feet. In the middle was the fire, and around 
the fire fat the Laplander’s wife, a boy, who was his fon, and 
fome inhofpitable and furly dogs, which never ceafed barking at 
us all the time we remained near them. Fall by the tent was 
ereiled a fhed, confifling of five or fix flicks or polls, that were 
faflened to one another near the top, in the fame manner as the 
tent, and covered with fkins and pieces of cloth. Under this 
canopy the Laplanders kept their povifions, which w r ere cheefe 
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