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174 GENERAL REMARKS
Year their huts the maritime Laplanders conftruét a receptacle
for hay, to which purpofe they fix three rows of pofts in the
ground, refembling the three walls of a houfe, with beams crofling
them at a certain height from the ground. Upon thefe tranfverfe
beams they place their hay, which they prefs down as clofely as
poilible, but principally work it round the upright pofts, the tops
of which remain vifible. Thus there are left under the hay two
empty fpaces, divided, as has been mentioned, by the rows of potts,
and termed, in the language of the country, aike or Jap. In this
manner the Laplanders preferve their hay through the winter,
rain {earcely ever falling during that feafon to do it damage, and
the fnows affecting it but little on the outfide. In the {paces be-
neath this hayftack the Laplanders hang their coats, and ftcre
their rein-deer {kins, their pots, and other houfehold ftuff. When
their ftock of hay is confumed, they are under the neceffity, in
order to procure provender, to cut down trees, and ftrip them of
their bark, which they offer to their cattle; they likewife give
them fmall branches to eat. It fometimes happens that the froft
proves fo fevere, as to congeal the fnow, and prevent the rein-
deer from fcraping it away with their feet, and thus hinder them
from coming at the mofs, which is their chief food: in this cafe
the Laplanders cut down large firs and others trees, in order to
take off the lichens and moffes growing on them. This occafions
a great deftruction and wafte of timber. They feed their cattle
likewife with roots, and fometimes prepare a particular mefs on
which their cows feed greedily. This is compofed of the head,
bones,
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