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and other infiruments of Hunting. 99
to this Sport, the cheifest of which are their Shoes, with which they Slide
over the frozen frowning made oS broad planks extremely fmroth ; the
Northern People call them Skidrr, and by contraction Skier ( which agrees
Something with the GermansScheitter , that is, cleft wood) and Sometimes
Andrtr or Ondrur or Skudh. Their Shape is , according to Olaus Magnus,
five or Six ells long, turned up before, and a Scot bread: which I cannot
believe, becauSe I have a pair which are a little broader, and much Shorter,
and Wnrmius had a pair but of three ells long. And thoSe are much fhorter
which are to be Seen at Leiden, which faies are just feven foot long,
Sour inchesanda little more broad : and it must needs be So to hold wjrh
Olaus Mtgnus, and every bodies opinion, that one Shoe must be longer
than the other by a foot, as if the man or woman be eight foot high, one
must be eight foot, and the other nine. Frifius faies they are both of a
length at Leiden, and Olaus Wormius takes no notice of any difference irt
his, but I believe then thofe were of two Parishes, for my biggest is just
fuch an one as Frifius defcribes covered over with refin or pitch , and the
fhorter plain. But becaufe the larger is of greatest ufe, it is no wonder
that one or two of them were fent abroad for a pattern , but Since thofe
at Leiden are both the biggest, they were not made Sor men So tall as
Frifius Speaks oS, they fitting men of Six Soot, which is a stature fometimes met
with in Lapland. They are fmcoth and turned up before, not behind,as
they are pi&ured in Wormiut, not by the fault of the Author,but the Painter,
for the original in his study Shew s them otherwife ; I have obferved in my
longer (hoe that it is not quite strait, but fwells up a little in the middle
where they place their fcot. Frifius did ill in giving a pifture but Of one4
and in that nothingof this bending, I will therefore defcribe both,and a
Laplander Sliding in them.
TheSe Shoes are faftned to their feet by a with, not run through the bor-
B b 2 torn
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