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160 GENERAL REMARKS
SECTION®# V.
Of the Drefs of the Laplanders, both Male and Female.
OME writers have affirmed, that the Laplanders wear drefles
ornamented with gold and filver; others again have as con-
fidently afferted, that their clothes are made with the {kins of
feals and bears, and fhaped in a manner to give them the appear-
ance of walking in facks. But thefe accounts are not to be re-
garded, and are as foreign to the truth, as that of a writer, who
declares the women in Lapland make ufe of veils wove of the
finews and entrails of wild animals.
Mr. Leems begins his account of this matter with defcribing
the drefs of the man: on his head he wears a cap of a conical
fhape, refembling that of a fugar-loaf. Thefe caps are generally
made of red kerfey cloth, and formed of four pieces, broader at
bottom than at the top, where they meet in a point: betwixt
the joinings of the four pieces a ftripe of yellow kerfey is fewed,
marking the divifions ; and to the top of the cap is fixed a toffel
of fhreds of different coloured cloth. ‘The lower part of the cap
has a border of otter’s {kin; but the Ruffian Laplander trims his
in-a more expenfive manner, with ermine.
Sometimes the border of thefe caps extends to fome length be-
fore
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