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GENERAL REMARKS 
SECTION XII. 
Of the Wandering Laplanders, and their Migrations. 
r IP HE maritime Laplanders only change their habitations twice 
a year, that is to fay, in fpring and autumn: in doing this 
they leave their huts Handing until their return; but this rule is 
not obferved by the mountain Laplander, who, like the ancient 
Scythians, or the modern Tartars and Arabs, is continually wan¬ 
dering from place to place. In the middle of fummer the moun¬ 
tain Laplanders, with their families and herds, move towards the 
fea-coaft, and on the approach of autumn, return to the moun¬ 
tains. Their progrefs is but flow, for they do not proceed above 
four Englifh miles each day, and the whole extent of their migra¬ 
tion from the fea-coaft. to the borders of Swedifh Lapland, does 
not exceed thirty. When arrived there, they may be faid to be 
ftutionary ; becaufe afterwards they only remove to fhort diftances, 
as oecafion requires, from one hill or wood to another. As foon 
as winter is paffed away, they feek the fea-coaft in the fame 
leifurely manner, until they reach the fpot which they have def- 
tined for their fummer refidcnce. 
On the road by which they pafs to the fea-coaft, the mountain 
Laplanders conftrubt a fort of hovel for the purpofe of depofiting 
provifions, 
