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138 GENERAL REMARKS
tice. The cafe is otherwife where the book, containing curious
and ufeful information, is not known to the nations to whom the
traveller addreffes his work, and which, were they acquainted
with its exiftence, would be intelligible only to a very {mall
number.
In order to add authority to my experience, and enlarge my
knowledge of the manners and cuftoms of the Laplanders, I caft
about to procure what affiftance I could from various accounts,
either printed or in manufcript, and in my refearches I fortunately
found at Drontheim, the capital of the province of Norway, which
borders on Norwegian Lapland, a work but little known in other
parts of Europe. This book profefledly treats of the Laplanders
inhabiting Finmark, who are fubjeét to the Danifh crown. The
manu{cript was drawn up in the Danifh language by Canure
Leems, who was ten years a miflionary to the Laplanders, con-
ftantly refiding amongft them, and a teacher of the Lapland
tongue in the vicinity of Drontheim. It is dedicated to the pre-
fent king of Denmark, Chriftian the Seventh, by whofe command
it was firft written, and afterwards tranflated into Latin. This
tranflation was printed at Copenhagen in 1767: it 1s illuftrated
by notes, chiefly, though not folely, relating to botany and natural
hiftory, by Gunner, Bifhop of Drontheim, accompanied with a
differtation on the pagan fuperftition of the Laplanders, and up-
wards of ninety copper-plates. From the miffionary’s narrative,
and alfo the bifhop’s annotations, I have introduced among my
obferyations what appeared to be moft curious and important.
There
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