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GENERAL REMARKS 
SECTION IX. 
Houfehold Furniture of the Laplanders. 
npHE inventory of the articles which conftitute the Laplan¬ 
ders houfehold furniture is very fhort: he has fufficient to 
anfvver his wants, and more than this would prove an incum¬ 
brance. The tent of the mountain Laplander is pitched one day 
in one place, and the next day removed to another: it is much 
the fame with the maritime Laplander. Chairs, tables, and 
things of this kind, which other people require, are to them to¬ 
tally unnecelfary, and therefore they have them not. If they 
pofTefTed them, they would have no where to place them, and 
when they removed they mull; leave them behind ; for they could 
not, without the greateft inconvenience, carry them away. A 
few copper veifels, tin kettles, wooden bowls, and horn fpoons, 
form the whole of their kitchen utenfils. To this fcanty and un- 
expenfive catalogue, a few of the richefl: individuals add two or three 
pewter dilhes, and fome filver fpoons. The mountain Laplander 
has no light in his hut during the night but what the fire affords 
him : the maritime Laplander ufes a lamp. A fea fhell holds 
the oil, which fupplies the wick made of a kind of rufh, and thus 
is the conftant light of a lamp readily procured from materials 
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