so that with their tops they may lean upon, and support one another, whereby the whole form seems to be like a quadrilaterall house, which ascending like a Pyramide, is narrower at top, and broader at bottom. These poles so placed they cover with course woollen cloth, which we before called _Waldmar_; but the richer sort over this woollen cloth place linnen also, by both which they may be the better defended from rain and storms. These are the sheds of the _Laplanders_ that dwell in the mountains, for the most part made of clothes, &c. which when they leave any place they take with them, and erect in another. But your _Graanlapper_, or _Wood-Laplanders_, make their sheds for the most part of board and posts, that at the top meet in a Cone, which they cover with the boughs of Firr and Pine-trees, or else with the bark of those trees, and sometimes with turff. That they covered them with the barks of trees, _Herberstenius_ witnesseth; _Andræas Buræus_ saies that those barks were of birch trees, to whom also assents _Olaus Petri_, who only adds, that they did a long time boil those barks to make them more flexible. _Olaus Magnus_, Lib. 4. Cap. 3. adds also skins, and these were the houses _Lomenius Comes_ saw, and describes in his Itinerary to be made of long poles and barks of trees. _Sam. Rheen_ describes the tents of the _Wood-Laplanders_ to be made of boards with six sides or walls, covered with boughs of Firr, or Pine-trees, sometimes with the barks, and sometimes only with turffs. _Wexionius_ increases the number of sides, and saies that they were octogons, somewhat broader towards the bottom, and five ells high, and especially those tents of the _Kimenses_. _Olaus Petri_ tells us the same of the _Pithenses_. Now these Tents they do not pull down or carry with them, but leave them in the same place, only when they come again they add new boughs, &c. where they were decayed, and to fit them for their use. Besides these two sorts of Tents, _Olaus Magnus_ reckons up another, for in this, Lib. 4. Cap. 2. he saies part of them place their Tents in trees that grow in a square figure, least in the fenny Countries they should be choaked with the great snows, or devoured by the wild beasts, which come together in great troops. What he means by trees that grow in a square figure I cannot tell, but I suppose he intends only that they did use to erect their Tents between 4 trees which grew so, that each of them might be the corner prop, of the four square shed, but this sort is to us quite unknow. _Tacitus_ saies the _Fenni_ used to dwell among a company of boughs, and perhaps that gave occasion to our Author to talk thus. He hath also got a 4^{th} sort which he could have no where else but from _Zieglerus_, for _Zieglerus_ had called them _Amaxobios_, from whence _Olaus Magnus_ saies they dwelt in Waines and Carts; and therefore _Olaus_ induced by this word of _Zieglerus_, thought the _Laplanders_ had bin such.