i 7 o GENERAL REMARKS 
linen or cotton, white or printed the white always furnifhed with 
a fringe or border. 
The women of Ruffian Lapland wear filver ear-rings, and fome- 
times filver collars, which go round their necks, and are connected 
with the rings in their ears. There is fo fmall a difference betwixt 
the male and female drefs in Lapland, that the good miffionary 
tells us, he has frequently known man and wnfe change habits 
through miftake, the man putting on the woman’s, and the wo- 
man the man’s clothes. 
The dreffes fo fully defcribed, of cloth, furs, and fkins, the 
gloves, fhoes, and other articles, it muff be obferved, are the foie 
labour of the women, the men in Lapland undertaking the oeco- 
nomy of the lioufe, in cooking, and other matters, which in 
other countries are performed by women ; differing in this from 
the reft of the world. Several utenfils of w 7 ood are alfo made by 
the women ; and the beft fculptures of Lapland are the w 7 orkman- 
fiip of the female fex. 
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