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18 TRAVELS
tery and parafitical praife are but little in fafhion, and confe-
quently we did not fufpect the parfon of diffimulation, or that he
was not perfectly fatisfied as to the good qualities he afcribed to
that beverage.
I fhall now lay before the reader what information I was able
to collect, refpecting this village and the manners of its inhabi-
tants. The population of the whole parifh confifts of four hun-
dred fouls, difperfed over a furface of nearly two hundred {quare
miles. The inhabitants are all of them Finlandifh emigrants, who
came and fettled here, and who confequently fpeak the language
of Finland. All travellers who have vifited this country have
named the people Laplanders; and I have in fome degree con-
formed myfelf, in the courfe of this work, to the fame prejudice,
but I have diftinguifhed them by the appellation of Finlandith
Laplanders, or in other words, Finlanders fettled in Lapland.
Their habits and manner of life are nearly the fame with thofe
of the natives of Finland; and, indeed, there is no difference but
what is produced by climate and their topographical fituation. It
it very remarkable, however, that the Finlanders fettled here,
like the paftoral Laplanders, know nothing either of poetry and
mufic, or mufical inftruments. Surrounded with lakes and rivers
abounding in fifh, they take little concern in agriculture, but de-
pend chiefly for fubfiftence on the precarious refource of fifhing,
or on the ftill more uncertain fruits of the chafe. The qualities,
as among all favage nations, in the higheft eftimation in the male
fex, are bodily ftrength and activity. They enjoy the appetite of
love,
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