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stature, but so constitutionally hard as to bear the severity of the most inclement season. These people are generally born in woods, and are frequently upon the snow, and wanderers from their birth to their life’s end. Their Huts are formed of pieces of timber or rafters joined together and covered with turf or the branches or bark of pine trees, so that architecture here may be said to appear in its first rudiments. Sometimes coarse cloth makes a part of the covering of their tents. In some places, we were told, that their houses were built upon the trunks of trees, raised above the surface of the earth, or upon a stone foundation, to prevent, in those desolate regions, their being overwhelmed in the enormous drifts of snow, or devoured by wild beasts.
In Summer, the Laplanders wear a close garment which reaches to the middle of their legs girded close about them with a belt. They have no linen, but their clothes are made in general of a coarse wool without dying; their shoes and caps, of the skin of the Rein-deer with the hair outwards. In winter their clothes are of skin with the hair
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