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188 GENERAL REMARKS
the tables of the rich and great in other parts of Europe by the
name of the defert, the reader will learn with fome furprife, are
not entirely unknown to thofe fimple people. To gratify their
tafte they peel off the inner bark of the fir-tree and fometimes
eat it frefh, and at other times heighten its flavour by hanging it
up in tbe fmoke. To render it completely relifhing, it is con-
ftantly fteeped in their favourite train oil fauce. Of apples, nuts,
and the fruits known in other countries, they have neither the
knowledge or defire to tafte; but to make amends, they poffefs
the herb angelica, of which they eat the root and leaves, either
taw or boiled in milk: thefe, with the berries that are found
when the fnows are melted, thoroughly ripened by having re-
mained buried during the long winter, ferve to amufe the time
they ufually pafs at table.
But the Laplander’s chief luxury is that herb in fuch univerfal
ufe over a great part of the globe, viz. tobacco: this is an enjoy-
meut of which he is fond to a degree of extacy. To obtain the
flavour of it, when not otherwife to be procured, he will even
chew flips of the bag which has held it, or chips from the cafk
in which it has been packed. He takes it either in fubftance by
chewing, or reccives its grateful fmoke through a tube. When
he chews tobacco, he will frequently fpit into his hand and regale
his nofe with the faliva which has imbibed the pungent falts of
the herb; thus at once gratifying the fenfes of {mell and tafte.
When they are affembled together at a convivial party, and the
fupply of their favourite herb is deficient, they place themfelves in
a circle
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