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¥72 GENERAL REMARKS
ened, in the fhape of hooks or cranes, for bearing the pot or kettle
fufpended over the fire. ;
Before the Laplanders retire to reft, they are careful to put out
the fire, and after the hut is clear of fmoke within, they climb up
the roof, and place a board over the hole.
It has been already obferved, that the hut is divided in the centre
by two piles of ftones, in order to form a fire-place. This divifion
is extended towards the door and the further end of the hut, by
means of four logs of birch wood of a due length being added.
This preferves two vacancies in the centre, befides that for the
fire. That towards the door is ufed as a receptacle for fire wood ;
that at the further end beyond the fire is the place where the
kettles are kept, and the copper veffel holding the {now water to
drink. There then remain two fpaces towards the fides of the hut
on the right and on the left of the fire-place: thefe are each di-
vided into three partitions, by logs of wood; the firft next the
door, reaching to where the fire-place begins; the fecond occu-
pying the extent of the fire-place; and the third taking up that
next to the feparation where the pots and kettles are placed.
Thefe partitions in the hut may be ftyled the bed-chambers; for
in them the family fleep in the order which fhall immediately be
explained.
Fach of thefe compartments or divifions has the fkin of a rein-
deer for a carpet, that no uneafinefs may be experienced in fitting
or lying down, from the branches which have been {pread upon
the ground of the hut. When the Lapland houfehold retire to
v4 reft,
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