1S0 GENERAL REMARKS 
fuffer from being too clofely covered. In order to effect this, he 
Exes a thong of leather to the poles of his tent over his bed, which 
raifes his canvafs quilt to a proper height, but fo that the fides or 
edges of it touch the ground : under this covering he creeps, and 
pafles the night fecurely. The fpecies of gnat that is fo trouble- 
fome, is the cuJex piplens of Linnaeus: it is called, in the Danifli 
language, lys-myg , and by the Laplanders, zhinoik. The female 
only bites and fucks the blood; but fo difficult is it to guard 
againft them, that gloves prove no protection, as they pafs their 
Rings through the feams. They are found in fuch fwarms in the 
woods, during the fummer, that whoever enters them is fure to 
have his face inftantly covered, and is fcarcely able to fee his way 
before him. A flight fwelling, attended with a difagreeable itch¬ 
ing, immediately follows the pundlure, and this is fucceeded by 
fmall white ulcers; fo that the face of a perfon coming from the 
country is fcarcely to be recognifed, and he appears full of blotches. 
Whilfl the Laplanders are employed in the w 7 oods, on the necef* 
fary bufmefs of cutting timber for the fake of the bark, they are 
unable to take the refrefliment of their meals; for their mouths, 
as foon as opened, would be filled with thefe infebls. If the wind 
happen to blow briskly, they difappear for the time; but no 
fooner is the wind laid, than they return with their ufual buz¬ 
zing, and crowd every place. Thefe flies equally infefi: the cattle 
and rein-deer: wdien thefe animals return from the woods, they 
are found covered with them, and when they are fwept from off 
their backs and fides, their Ikins are red with blood. Smoke is 
found 
