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THROUGH LAPLAND. 103
tance of a Norwegian mile, or niile and a-half from one another.
Abundance and contentment reign in all their dwellings. Each
Laplander is the proprietor of the territory around his little man-
fion, to the extent of a Norwegian mile, or eight eight Englith,
in every direétion. They have fome cows which furnifh them
with excellent milk, and meadow land which yields hay for their
fodder in winter. They have every one a ftore of fith dried in the
fun, not only for their own ufe, but wherewithal to purchafe
luxuries; that ts, falt, oatmeal, and fome woollen clothes. Their
houfes are conftructed in the form of tents: a hole in the mid-
dle, which gives them light, ferves alfo as an aperture for letting
out the fmoke of the fire, which is always placed in the centre
of the cabin; and around which they fleep quite clofe to one
another. In winter, befides the heat of the fire, they have the
benefit of the animal warmth of the cows, with whom they fhare
the fhelter of their roof, as the inhabitants of Scotland do in the
highlands and the northern ifles. The doors of their houfes in
fummer are always open; and although in that feafon there is no
} night, they are accuftomed to fleep at the fame time as other
Europeans; with the exception of thofe who are in fuch inceffant
purfuit of pleafure, as to fly from one object to another, and pufh
the hours gradually on, till they convert night into day. We have
gone into their cabins at one and two o’clock, after the hour that
we call midnight, when we always found the whole family lain
down and afleep. We have fometimes remained a quarter of an
hour near them before they were awakened by our prefence from
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