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GENERAL REMARKS
CONCERNING
| Ss AR Sah As i a
SECTION I.
Of fome Writers who have given Accounts of Lapland, efpecially the
Miffionary Canute Leems—The Author’s Views in this part of the
Work explained.
F a traveller were to confine his attention and his narrative to
the particulars that actually meet his own eye, his difcoveries
would be bounded by a narrow horizon, and even in that compafs
his information would often be very imperfect. The origin, rea-
fons, and various connections of things are frequently to be learned
from others. It is therefore his bufinefs, not only to converfe as
much as poffible with the natives, and all thofe who can afford in-
telligence, but alfo to confult written records. To fwell a jour-
nal with extra¢ts from books within every one’s reach, and which
all may underftand, isa common but not a very equitable prac-
Mot. Il. 8 tice,
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