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6. A TOUR THROUGH
water can fupply, none is to be compared with the Ruda
either for goodnefs or for flavour. “It refembles the Carp
in fhape, and is equally pleafant to the palate. —
LETTER XVIL
Tornao,
piers Laplanders in general are below the middle fta-
ture, with flat faces, high cheek bones, long black
hair, and their complexions of a mahogany hue. Their
habitations are dirty toa great degree, but on account of
their unfettled life are portable. They’ leave an aperture ©
at the top which ferves both for window and ‘chimney,
and a {mall hole on one fide for an entrance: In
fhort their dwellings are not unlike thofe defcribed “in
Cook’s Voyage of the inhabitants of Kamfchatka. ‘The
Laplanders are mufcular and aélive, though at the fame
time, which feems to imply a contradiftion, they are na-
turally idle, but perfeétly pacific in their tempers. The
Women, likewife are low, with large broad features, but
have
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