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bones and entrails of fifh boiled, together with flraw, and the 
fucus, or fea-weed. The Norwegian peafants, or Normans as 
they are called, who inhabit the eaflern parts of Finmark, fodder 
their cows not only with hay, but with the fame mixture, or with 
fuch lichens as are given to the rein-deer. 
The winter tent of the mountain Laplander differs but little 
from the hut of the maritime Laplander juff now defcribed, ex¬ 
cept that the fame contrivance which the latter ufes for boiling 
his pot is not employed by the former. The mountain Laplander, 
in clearing away the fnow to form a ground floor for his tent, raifes 
with it a circular wall, which furrounds the habitation. The poles 
which fupport the woollen covering of his tent, are fixed in this 
wall of fnow, and a fmall beam, croffing the top of the principal 
poles, fupports the iron pot-hook to which his kettle is hung. 
The woollen cloth which covers the tent is in two pieces, joined 
together by wooden fkewers. The door of the tent is cut in the 
fhape of a pyramid, out of woollen fluff, extended by wooden 
flretchers. Thefe flretchers frame the door, which is faflened to 
the tent only by a thong of leather at the top or point of the py¬ 
ramid. The tides of the door are joined to fome Render poles or 
flicks, which conflitute the two door polls. One fide of the door 
is faflened to either of thefe two polls, according as the wind 
blows, fo as to prevent any opening to the interior of the tent, 
which might occafion an increafe of fmoke. By this means the 
tent can be entered only on one fide, and on that alone which is 
oppofite to the wind. 
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