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THROUGH FINLAND. 285
CHAPTER XXII.
Influence of the northern Climate upon the Manners and Habits of the
People—Hardfhips of living in the North, when compared to the
fouthern Countries—Occupations of the Finlanders in Winter—
Their Methods of catching Fifh—The Chafe of the Bear—Mode
of fhooting the Squirrel—Dangers that attend the Chafe of the
- Seal—An Infiance mentioned of two Finlanders that were caft
away upon the Ice while im this Purfuit.
TRAVELLER who vifits thofe countries during winter, is
apt to imagine that men, animals, and plants, are all con-
figned to a profound fleep: nor is it eafy for him to conceive
whence the natives derive the means of their fubfiftence. Seas,
rivers, lakes, are all frozen up, and feem to fhut out the neceflary
refource of fifhing ; the birds fly from thefe inhofpitable regions,
and hence afford no fuftenance; the earth on all fides covered
with froft and fnow, is here converted into an inexorable prifon,
confining all her fruits ;—this univerfal nakednefs naturally begets
in the ftranger an expectation of feeing everywhere poverty, want,
and wretchednefs: but one who has refided among thefe people
will find, that they are neither lefs awake, nor lefs active, nor worfe
fed than the inhabitants of the South. The different feafons here,
as
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