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GENERAL REMARKS 
The mountain Laplander ufually pitches his tent in the woods, 
and goes out every day, except Sundays and holidays, in Larch of 
fuel. Having cut. down a tree, he drags it himfelf to the door of 
his tent, where he lops off the branches, and prepares the larger 
limbs for his fire, having eredted a machine for that purpofe, con¬ 
fiding of a tranfverfe beam laid upon two upright polls. When 
he prepares to light his fire, he collects the ignited fubflances in a 
piece of birch bark, covering them with dry leaves and fmall 
twigs. The wood he afterwards puts on, being for the mold part 
green and incrufted with fnow and ice, as foon as lighted, fends 
forth a thick fmoke, which is rendered flill more intolerable by 
the unpleafant vapour emitted from the moifd wood. The whole 
tent is for a time involved in a pitchy cloud, and all who remain 
in it run the rifk of lofing their eye-fight. As the flame breaks 
forth, the fmoke gradually decreafes, but the upper part pf the 
tent is always filled with it, and if the wind be high, it is driven 
back from the aperture intended to let it out. When the moun¬ 
tain Laplander goes to reft, he does not extinguifh his fire, which 
ferves the purpofe of a lamp, and affords him as much light as he 
has occafion for. At a little diflance from his tent, the mountain 
Laplander raifes a hovel, by laying a few beams acrofs fome pofts 
fduck in the ground, and covering them with boughs. This ferves 
him as a ilore-houfe for his rein-deers’ fkins, and fpare utenfils. 
The fummer tent of the mountain Laplander refembles, in every 
refpedt, that which he ufes in winter, except that the covering of 
it is of canvafs cloth, and that it has no fnow wall, the fnows 
being 
