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THROUGH LAPLAND. ar
The people are extremely fober, they never drink fpirituous
liquors, except on marriage days, when they indulge, but not to
excefs, in mirth and gaiety. The ceremony of marriage is fol-
lowed by a dinner in their ftyle, and afterwards by a dance, but
without mufic of any kind, except their cries and the {napping
of their fingers. They have no relifh for beer; anid when we pre-
vailed upon them to tafte our wine, they made wry faces and took
it for phyfic. The parfon affured us in the moft pathetic accents,
that there was not a fingle glafs of brandy to be had in the whole
two hundred fquare miles of his parifh ;, he told us likewife, that
drunkennefs is regarded by the people as the moft fcandalous vice
to which a man can be fubje&: and we could not help fufpecting
that this was one of the caufes of his being {0 little revered and
e{teemed by his flock.
Difeafe and ficknefs are extremely rare among thefe people ;
there have been inftances of peafants in this parifh, who have
lived to the age of one hundred and ten years: and the only dif-
order that proves fatal to the inhabitants, is a kind of inflamma-
tory fever.
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