degree, by defending the feverity of the weather; this is fo particularly defcribed bv Li»„
hts Flora Lapon. that we (hall tranflate tt for fuch o f our readers as may not have an opportunity of »
the original, now become very fcarce : ' ^ uuu/ or confultjn„
a 9 ® “ w d* wo®d®r’ Perhaps, curious reader, in what manner human beings are capable of nrefer, • ,
during the intend feverity of a winter's froft in Lapland, a part of the world deferred on , h f ‘ ,v,nS We
winter by almoft every kind of bird and bead. n the approach of
“ The inhabitants of this inhofpitable climate are obliged to wander with their Rhendeer flock« c
in the woods ; not only in the day-time, but through the longed winter nights their cattle f * 11?
nor do they eat any other food than Liverwort; hence, the herdfmen, ?o Tecure them from w ^ W '
and other accidents, are of neceffity kept perpetually with them. The darknefs of their n ehte i l f bealis.
degree overcome and rendered more tolerable by the light of the dars reflefted from .£ r ?reat
Aurora Borealis, which in a thoufand fantadic 'forms M M illumines thdr HemZere S 1 1 1
mtenfe, fufficient to frighten and drive us foreigners from their happy woods. No part of our h ^ ° d ls
lo liable to be dedroyed by cold as the extremities, which are fituated farthed from the heart - .f,'“
“ A Laplander preferves himfelf from the violence of cold in the following manner • he wear« U I
or rather trowfers, made of the rough Ikin of the Rhendeer, which reach to hfs ancles, and Oims m a d e ^ t'
fame material the hair turned outward; this grafs, cut down in the fummer, dried,rubbed^ betwi ° ^
hands, and afterwards combed or carded, he puts into'his Ihoes, fo as not only whol y to enwran hf« r he
but the lower part of his legs alfo, Which, thus defended, never differ from the fevered c o l d E l i
fhefrod.a f0fi ‘S hls halrf Sloves toprefervehis hands, and thus are thofe hardy people enabled toVet
“ As this grafs in the winter drives away cold, fo in the dimmer it checks the perfniration of the r
and preferves them from being injured by dones, &c. in travelling, for their dio« are extrem^v ’
being made of untanned flans. It is difficult to learn, on inquiry, what the narticnlav ;1 r y jlln- I
which is thus £ requeft with thefe people, as fome ufe one fort, fome another.P It is, however alwavsfn ,S I
fpecies of Carex, and we underftood chiefly this.” , - nowever, always fome I
• i 's,n° m difficuIrt t0 ttnderdand what fpecies L innaus himfelf means: he quotes M o rM s dgure H t f, ?et fayS’ H i 1)16 C?rex Srows ,!n limo plenis, which that plant it is mod likely, m our opinion, to be one or all of the three common fpecies here figurende.ver dSs with 1