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THROUGH FINLAND. 219
get nothing but herrings and milk, they fhould bring you water
in a filver veflel of the value of fifty or fixty rix dollars. The
women are warmly clad; above their clothes they wear a linen
_ fhift, which gives them the air of being in a fort of undrefs, and
produces an odd though not difagreeable fancy. The infide of the
houfe is always warm, and indeed too much fo for one who
comes out of the external air, and is not accuftomed to that tem-
perature. The peafants remain in the houfe conftantly in their
fhirt fleeves, without a coat, and with but a fingle waiftcoat ; they
frequently go abroad in the fame drefs, without dread either of
rheumati{m or fever. We fhall fee the reafon of this when we
come to {peak of their baths. The Finlanders, who accompany
travellers behind their fledges, are generally dreffed in a kind of
fhort coat made of a calf’s-{kin, or in a woollen fhirt, faftened
round the middle with a girdle. They pull over their boots
coarfe woollen ftockings, which have the double advantage of
keeping them warm, and preventing them from flipping on the
ice.
The interior of the peafants’ houfe prefents a picture of con-
fiderable intereft. The women are occupied in teafing or {pinning
wool for their clothing, the men in cutting faggots, making nets,
and mending or conftrudcting their fledges.
We met at Mamola with a blind old man, having his fiddle
under his arm, furrounded by a crowd of boys and girls. There
was fomething refpectable in his appearance; his forehead was
bald, a long beard defcended from his chin, white as fnow, and
a ie | covered
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