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other Findmarckia, the one lying along the shore, and bordering on the Sea,
the other mountainous, woody, and savage, upon the Terra firma. And this
too may be worth our notice, that Wildfinland with him is that which others
call Lappmarkia: I suppose, because the Natives live by hunting, as those of
the other do by fishing. For he presently adds, There are many thousands in
that place that feed on nothing but the flesh of wild Beasts. And indeed some
there are with whom those only pass for the true Laplanders: as Samuel Rheen,
who in his 2d Chapter of his forementioned Book, tells us, that besides the
Scrickfinni (so he calls them that with Pet. Claud. are Sjœfinnes) there are
other true Laplanders, that live on nothing but rain deer. And so from the
Natives feeding on wild Beasts, Lapland properly so called, is also stiled
Wildfindland, in opposition to Findmarkia, whose Inhabitants live both on
Fish and Cattel. And yet there may be given another reason for the imposition
of this name, from the many woods of that Country. Olaus Magnus in more
places then one calls the natives, men that dwell in woods, or Savages: as in the
title of his 3d Chapt. of his 4th Book, which is, Concerning the fierceness of the
Savages, or those that dwell in woods, in which Chapter he describes the
Laplanders. And in the following Chapter he says, that the wild Laplanders are
clothed with rich skins of several Beasts. The Baron Herberstenius also in his
History of Moscovy, calls them Savage Laplanders, who tho they dwell, says he, on
the Sea Coast in little Cottages, and lead a brutish kind of life, are yet more
civilized then the Savages of Lapland: whence ’tis plain, that by the Findlanders
living near the Sea, he means those that others call Siœfinnes, and by the
Savage Laplanders those that possess the inland Country, who he thinks were
so called from their wildness and barbarity. And by and by he adds, that by
converse with Strangers, who come thither to trade, they begin to lay aside their
Savage nature, and become a little more civilized. Afterwards he calls them
Diki Loppi, which name the Moscovites give them at this time, as hath been
shewed elswhere.
There is also a 3d Division of Lapland, that respects the several Princes
to whom the Country is in subjection. And this Andr. Buræus intends, when
he tells us, The greatest part of Lapland, viz. the Southern and inland Country,
belongs all to the Kingdom of Sweden: The maritime tract, that lies on the Ocean
and is called Findmark (whose Inhabitants the Siœfinni, or maritime Finlanders,
are so named from their living by fishing) to Norway. The rest of them that dwell
from the Castle of Warhuus to the mouth of the white Sea, are subject to the
Russians; which part the Swedes call Trennes, the Natives Pyhinienni, and the
Russians Tarchana voloch. Of their subjection to these severall Princes, we shall
speak when we come to treat of their Government; and also of those parts
that belong to Norway or Denmark, and Russia. At present we shall only
mention the division of that part which is under the Swedes, and is named
by Buræus, the Southern and inland Lapland, and by Petr. Claud.
Lappmarkia properly so called. This is divided into six lesser parts called marker,
or lands, tho Buræus chuses to render them Territories or Provinces. Each
of these have their distinct names, and are called Aongermandlandslapmark,
Vmalappmark, Pithalappmark, Lulalapmark, Tornalapmark, Kiemilapmark.
So Samuel Rheen in his first Chapter, That part of Lapland which belongs
to Sweden is divided into the Kiemensian , Tornensian, Lulenian, Pithensian,
Umensian, and Angermanlandensian Lapmark. Buræus mentions but five of these
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