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156 GENERAL REMARKS
twixt two feather-beds, as their more civilifed neighbours. Their
avocations do not difturb the natural flow of their animal {pirit,
nor do they weaken their body by the labours of the mind: it
muft of neceflity follow, that they are ftrong, healthy, and active.
Some of the Laplanders are very expert in carving in wood or
horn, though they ufe no other tool than a common knife ; with
this they make many little utenfils, fuch as cups, fpoons, &c. as
will be more fully explained in a fubfequent feGtion. Their
fledges are of their own conftruction, and fo artificially put toge-
ther, that not a drop of wet can penetrate them. The women
are very {kilful in ornamenting belts with tinfel wire, and fome
of them, like the men, excel in carving upon wood or horn. Thefe
people are very dexterous in the purfuits of the chafe, as will be
fhewn hereafter. Their only weapons were formerly bows and
arrows; but they now make ufe of fire-arms, and are become
good markfmen.
The miffionary records, as a principal virtue of the natives of
Lapland, their great attention to the duties of religion, and their
ferious devotion when affembled at divine fervice. He {peaks
of the patience with which they fit bareheaded in the fevereft
frofts, for three hours together, to hear the word of God delivered
to them under tents, which are by no means fufficiently fecured
againft the current of an extreme cold air. It appears, that at
and quilt ; and thefe two feather-beds are moft commonly of the fineft and fofteft
down. Some phyficians recommend fleeping on the right fide, or right ear; the
good bifhop feems, however, to think, that to fleep cafually on either ear is the
moft conducive to health.
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