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140 GENERAL REMARKS
had met with in thofe authors, in the courfe of his extenfive read-
ing.
The miffionary’s book is publifhed, very properly, in the Danith
language, as well as in the Latin tranflation. For the barbarous
Latin that the tranflator, though a great mafter of the Latin
tongue, is obliged to ufe from the novelty of the matter (which
even Cicero or Ceefar could not have expreffed in pure latinity),
would in many inftances be unintelligible to good latinifts, if it
were not elucidated by the addition of the Danith.
The Laplanders, of whom an account is given by the miffionary
Leems, are the inhabitants of Finmark, making part of the pre-
fe&ture of Drontheim, and belonging to the crown of Denmark.
And thefe are faid to differ in no refpe& in their manners, cuf-
toms, and language, from the Laplanders belonging to Ruffia and
Sweden, and manifeftly to be one and the fame people, though
under different governments. In following our author through his
work, I fhall, in fome inftances, go over the fame ground on
which I have already flightly touched. But, where I do fo, the
circumftantiality of the miffionary will afford a fufficient degree
of novelty and intereft, to prevent the unpleafant fatigue of repe-
tition.
Some writers have defcribed the Laplanders, not only as dirty,
indolent, and immoderately addicted to fpirituous liquors, but as
a libidinous and cowardly race of people, covetous of money, and
knavifh in the acquifition of it. The miflionary Leems fhews a
very laudable partiality for thofe people, who have been the object
of
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