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LETTER XXIV.
Pithia, June 27.
THE most nothern point to which our Journey extended was Tornao, from whence I have endeavoured to give you some account of the Inhabitants of this country. We left that place yesterday, and though our accommodations were not of the most agreeable nature, yet they were rendered tolerable by the civility and politeness with which we were entertained. We had not travelled far, before we were informed, that we might have an opportunity of observing a Laplander and his family who were feeding their herd of Rein-deer at no great distance. We got out of the carriage, and walked about the distance of an English mile through a very thick wood where we found their family in a Tent or Hut. This consisted of an old man, his wife, a young man and his wife with a very young child, probably about two months Old. The infant was most curioufly trussed up in a cradle or
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