1. The sharp winds. In the early part of my journey, repeated exposure to stormy weather rendered my eyes sore, so that I became unable to open them wide, and was obliged to keep them half shut. How much more must this be the case with those who dwell on the alps, where there is a perpetual wind!
2. The snow, the whiteness of which, when the sun shone upon it, was very troublesome to me. To this the alpine Laplanders are continually exposed.
3. The fogs. This day I found myself very comfortable in my walk over the icy mountain, till the fog, mist, or cloud, whichever it might be called, came about me, rendering the eyes of my interpreter, as well as my own, so weak and relaxed, that we could not open them wide without an effort. Such must often be the case with the Laplanders.
4. Smoke. How is it possible that these people should not be blear-eyed, when they are so continually shut up in their huts,
where the smoke has no outlet but by the hole in the roof, and consequently fills every body's eyes as it passes!
5. The severity of the cold in this country must also contribute to the same inconvenience.
The mountain Laplanders, or those who live in the alps, build no huts; they have only tents made in the following manner.
The first figure represents two connected