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the Finlanders fire, Tuli, the Laplanders Tolle, they call a hill Wuori, these
Warra, and so they agree in many other words. Besides they have bodies
and habits alike, both their limbs well set, black hair, broad faces, and stern
countenances, and whatever else they have different is very small, or may
easily proceed from their diet or Clime, in which they live. Their clothes
too are not much unlike; for if we compare the Picture of an ancient
Finlander, as it still remains in
the Church of Storekyr in
Ostrobothnia, where the
laughter of Bishop Henry was
drawn at large, with mine of
a Laplander in Chapt. XVII.
it will appear there is no
great difference between
them. Lastly they agree in
disposition and humor: they
are both much given to
laziness at home, unless when
necessity urges them to work;
both, unmoveable from their
purpose, both superstitious
and lovers of Magick. And
therefore Ol. Magn. saies of
them both, that they were
so skilfull Magicians in the
time of their Paganism as if
they had had Zoroaster himself
for their teacher. In a word
whatever Tacitus saies of the
Finlanders, now holds true
of the Laplanders, that they
have neither weapons, horses,
nor houshold gods, they live
upon herbs, are cloth’d with
skins, lie upon the ground,
putting all their confidence in
arrows, which they head with
bones for want of iron. Both
the men and women support
themselves by hunting, and they
hive no other defence for their
Children against the violence
of wild beasts or weather, but
Huts or hurdles, which are the
security of the old men as well
as young. And the same
Description which Saxo gives of
these, belongs as well to the
Laplanders, that they are the fartheft People towards the North, living in a
Clime almost inhabitable, good archers and hunters, wanderers, and of an

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