. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. k, where they are milked. Each yields only about a toa-cupful of milk ; but rich,aromatic, and of exquisite taste. Linnaeus mentions nineteen farms in wliich milk is pre-pared for food: but cleanliness does not preside over their cookery; and the use of tiie hand,without knife or fork, to carry every thing to the mouth, and of the tongue to lick the dishes,prevents an European from joining these meals Avith any relisli. The Laplanders travel from place to phicc, and mov
. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. k, where they are milked. Each yields only about a toa-cupful of milk ; but rich,aromatic, and of exquisite taste. Linnaeus mentions nineteen farms in wliich milk is pre-pared for food: but cleanliness does not preside over their cookery; and the use of tiie hand,without knife or fork, to carry every thing to the mouth, and of the tongue to lick the dishes,prevents an European from joining these meals Avith any relisli. The Laplanders travel from place to phicc, and move251 ,, tlieir families, usually at the be ginning of winter and summer,in sledges made in the form of aboat, and drawn by rein-deer{Jig. 251.). These animals aretamed and trained with con-siderable difficulty, and they aresometimes restive; but, in gene-ral, they bound over hill anddale with surprising natives have also a speciesof snow-shoe; net a broad flat board, like that of America, but somewhat m the form of askate, with which they glide rapidly along the surface of deep snow, and even up and down. Luplanders Travelling 2.:;2 the steep sides of the hills (Jig. 252.).Their dress is carefully contrived lorthe purposes of warmth. The underpart, or shirt, is composed of sheepsskin with the wool inwards; while coat is formed by the skin ofthe rein-deer, or some other animal,having the fur outwards. They addfur gloves, and a woollen pointed redcap {fig. 253.). The entire population of Lapland,spread over a surface of 150 miles square,is stated by Dr. Thomson not to , or one inhabitant to every tlireesquare miles. Even this scanty mea-sure is supported only on the sea-coasts by a supply of fish. The parishof Kautokeino, in the interior, extending 200 miles in length and 96 in breadth, was re-ported to Acerbi as containing not more than ninety families, of whom twelve only arefixed. Tlie Laplanders are a liarmless race, among whom great
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