Travels through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, to the North Cape, in the years 1798 and 1799 . o accept any money when weoffered it. I have feen very few places where the people live info eafy and happy a fimplicity as in the maritime diftridts of Lap-land. Their huts are dark and narrow, and they have neitherbedfteads, chairs, nor tables ; for they fleep and fit more com-fortably on the ground, and their houfes are as convenient as theyneed be for their occupations and different purfuits. Their localiituation has, at leaft in fummer, a cheerful and fmiling afpecl:,being placed near the fea, an
Travels through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, to the North Cape, in the years 1798 and 1799 . o accept any money when weoffered it. I have feen very few places where the people live info eafy and happy a fimplicity as in the maritime diftridts of Lap-land. Their huts are dark and narrow, and they have neitherbedfteads, chairs, nor tables ; for they fleep and fit more com-fortably on the ground, and their houfes are as convenient as theyneed be for their occupations and different purfuits. Their localiituation has, at leaft in fummer, a cheerful and fmiling afpecl:,being placed near the fea, and at the foot or on the fides of moun-tains, where the bountiful hand of nature has given them richpaftures that want no cultivation ; and what is moft valuable, theground on which they tread, and the foil which yields them fuf-tenance, they call their own, and acknowledge no landlord overit. There is no mafter to trouble them, or to infpire them withany fear or apprehenfion : the only fevere influence they have todread, arifes now and then from the rapacity of merchants. / , //(>/////,f s// ^ -^/<////ff//f/eLo t-S/// THROUGH LAPLAND. 107 We left this cabin to purfue our voyage ; but after proceedingfive or fix Englifh miles, we were obliged by the wind again toland, when we determined to take advantage of this interval tomake an excurfion into the interior of the country, in order to tryif we could meet with any thing remarkable, and particularly,whether we could not get a fight of fome wandering Laplanderswith their rein-deer and their tents. We travelled feven or eightEnglifh miles on foot, and found here and there, amidfl thofemountains, delicious fpots and vallies, enclofed by hills that werecovered with birch and fome other trees. We enjoyed the fhade,and the frefhnefs of the brooks or rivulets that watered the at lafl came to a mountain Laplanders tent, and our curiofitywas fatisfied : this tent was of a conical form, and not fhaped ast
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