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THROUGH LAPLAND. “7°
to perfpire. It was beyond what I am able to defcribe; and
were I ever fo equal to the tafk, I am fure the reader would not
thank me for the perufal of fo ill-favoured a compofition.
The degree of heat was twenty-nine in the fhade, and forty-five
in the fun. The ground burned our feet ; and the few fhrubs we
met with in our way afforded us little or no fhelter. We were
almoft fuffocated with heat ; and to add to our fufferings, we were
under the neceffity of wearing a drefs of thick woollen cloth, as
a fecurity from the infects, and to cover our faces with a veil,
which in a great meafure prevented our drawing breath. This
extraordinary degree of heat foon operated moft powerfully upon
our Laplanders, who had already {wallowed three glaffes of brandy
each. They laid themfelves down to reft at every fhort diftance,
and were calling out every moment for more brandy. We foon
difcovered that we had no longer to do with Finlanders, who are
a fober, robuft, active, and hardy race of people. We had now
to deal with a fet of wretches who cared only for fermented li-
quors, and were unwilling to work. In this manner we went on
for fix miles from the beginning of our journey, in which diftance
they {topped to take reft about fifty times, and as many times
each of them afked for brandy. If we had not come to the refo-
lution to deny them when they afked, we fhould have made no
progrefs that day. They were dying with thirft, and the firft
{pring they came to they dipped their heads in, like fo many pigs,
and drank full as large draughts. We were at very confiderable
trouble throughout the whole of this journey, both in making
our Laplanders go on and in keeping them from ftraggling.
When
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