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GENERAL REMARKS 
ened, in the fhape of hooks or cranes, for bearing the pot or kettle 
fufpended over the fire. 
Before the Laplanders retire to reft, they are careful to put out 
the fire, and after the hut is clear of fmoke within, they climb up- 
the roof, and place a board over the hole. 
It has been already obferved, that the hut is divided in the centre 
by two piles of ftones, in order to form a fire-place. This divifion 
is extended towards the door and the further end of the hut, by 
means of four logs of birch wood of a due length being added. 
This preferves two vacancies in the centre, befides that for the 
fire. That towards the door is ufed as a receptacle for fire wood ; 
that at the further end beyond the fire is the place where the 
kettles are kept, and the copper vefiel holding the fnow water to 
drink. There then remain two fpaces towards the fides of the hut 
on the right and on the left of the fire-place: thefe are each di¬ 
vided into three partitions, by logs of wood ; the firft next the 
door, reaching to where the fire-place begins; the fecond occu¬ 
pying the extent of the fire-place; and the third taking up that 
next to the feparation where the pots and kettles are placed. 
Thefe partitions in the hut may be ftyled the bed-chambers; for 
in them the family fieep in the order which fhall immediately be 
explained. 
Each of thefe compartments or divifions has the fkin of a rein¬ 
deer for a carpet, that no uneafinefs may be experienced in fitting 
or lying down, from the branches which have been fpread upon 
the ground of the hut. When the Lapland houfehold retire to 
2 reft, 
