THROUGH LAPLAND. 
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of vow. He informs us that the wandering Laplanders Rill pre- 
ferve among them fome remains of paganifm. It happens here 
and there in the defeits, that a Rone is feen bearing fome refem- 
blance of the human form. The Laplanders, when they chance 
in the courfe of their movements from place to place with their 
herds, to pafs by any of thefe Rones, offer up facrifices to the idol. 
There is always found near them a number of rein-deer’s horns. 
He mentions, that the Laplanders have amongR them a confider- 
able quantity of money, which they are in the cuRom of bury¬ 
ing in the earth ; fo that hundreds of rix dollars are frequently 
loR, as the proprietors are often overtaken by fevere illnefs and 
death, before they have revealed to any one the place w'hej'e their 
treafures are concealed. 
Of the drefs of the Laplanders, he obferves, that there is 
fcarcely any other difference between that of the mountaineers 
and that of thofe who have permanent habitations, except that 
thefe laR are, in the fummer feafon, in the habit of wearing 
woollen Ruffs in place of the Reins of rein-deer; and that they 
have fliirts, which the wandering Laplanders have not. The only 
book known among the Laplanders, according to this authority, 
is the prayer-book. 
He fpeaks of a kind of glue made of the rein-deer’s horns, 
which, he fays, is of a moR excellent quality. He further Rates, 
that the moR common difeafe among the rein-deer, is that of the 
milza\ for which there is no remedy, and of which the animal 
dies in the fpace of one year. He adds alfo, that difeafes of the 
eyes, liver, heart, and feet, are very common to thofe creatures. 
