17B 
GENERAL REMARKS 
Having fully defcribed the huts and tents of the maritime and 
mountain Laplanders, Mr. Leems proceeds to fpeak of the habi¬ 
tations of the peafants in Norway and Lapland. Thefe are mean 
cottages, the fide walls formed of wood, the roof of turf, fupported on 
boards which run longitudinally over the top. They are built without 
chimneys, in this refpedt differing from the huts of other peafants, 
but have a paffage for the fmoke through a number of apertures in 
the fide walls, by which the light is likewife admitted. Their 
fire-places are conflrufted with heaps of Rones in the form of 
ovens. The fire is daily lighted, and the door and holes before- 
mentioned left open, that the fmoke may pafs off. The fuel 
being fully confumed, the {tones which form the oven are found 
thoroughly heated, and the door and apertures are clofed, by which 
means a fufficient degree of warmth is preferved to laft till the 
next day, when the oven is again lighted. Thefe peafants ufe 
pieces of the fir-tree inftead of lamps, and pave their huts with, 
fmooth Rones, 
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