CONCERNING LAPLAND. 
SECTION IV. 
Of the exterior Appearance and bodily Confutation of the Laplanders 
— Their Habits and Mode of Life—Their religious and moral 
Char a 51 er. 
HjpHE children of the Laplanders are remarkably fat and chubby, 
which appears not only in their faces, but other parts of their 
bodies. This difpofition to increafe in flefh, however, is lefs per¬ 
ceptible as they grow up. The Laplander is of a fwarthy and 
dark complexion, his hair is black and lhort, his mouth wide, 
and his cheeks hollow, with a chin fomewhat long and pointed : 
his eyes are weak and watery, which in fome degree proceeds 
from the conftant fmoke he endures whilft at home, in his tent 
or hutand may like wife be attributed to the fnows which, dur¬ 
ing winter, are conftantly driving in his face, whilil he is abroad 
and engaged in hunting upon the mountains, which afford him 
no object to fix his eyes upon but what is glaring with whitenefs. 
That this weaknefs of his eyes proceeds from thefe caufes, and 
efpecially the latter, is highly probable, from the circumftance that 
a man often lofes his fight for l'everal days after his return from 
hunting. 
The Laplanders have been reprefented by fome authors as being 
overgrown 
