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Rh Smell is very diagreeable, as well by the Number of burning Lamps, all fed with as on account of divers Sort or raw Meat, Fihes and Fat, which they heap up in their Habitations; but epecially their  mell mot inufferably, and trikes one, that is not accutomed to it, to the very Heart.

Thee they begin to dwell in immediately after Michaelmas, and leave them again at the Approach of the Spring, which commonly is at the latter End of March; and then for the  lodge in Tents, which are their Summer Habitations. Thee Tents are made of Rafts or long Poles, et in a circular Form, bending at the Top, and reembling a and covered with a double Cover, of which the innermot is of Seal or  Skins with the  inward, (if they be rich) and the outermot alo of the ame ort of Skins, without Hair, dreed with Fat, that the Rain may not pierce them. In thee Tents they have Rh