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CONCERNING LAPLAND. 141
of his pious labours, and among whom, according to his own
account, he has paffed many days of hardfhip, for the purpofe of
pointing out to them the road to falvation. He does not deny all
that has been afferted in their disfavour, or rather, his mode of
vindication fhews, that however they may be improved in their
manners, they were not always irreproachable. As to their inor-
dinate paffion for intoxication, whether by means of fpirituous
liquors or tobacco, he acknowledges and explains it, though even
here his propenfity to fhade and extenuate their failings is ob-
vious.
From what I have faid concerning the affiftance of which I
fhall avail myfelf in the following account of Lapland, the reader
is not to imagine, that he has to expect nothing farther in the
fubfequent pages than a mere tranflation of the book alluded to.
On the contrary, I have only fele¢ted from it fuch information
as I found interefting and applicable to the prefent {tate of that
country. This is interfperfed with my own remarks ; and I have
fhewn in which points I differ from the ftatements of the author.
Some of his affertions, which were not confirmed by my own ob-
fervation, I have not introduced : and, laftly, I have inferted large
communications * on the natural hiftory of Lapland, accompanied
by fome plates ; which, I truft, will be received as an acceptable
prefent, by thofe who cultivate that important {cience. It would,
* Chiefly what is faid on the birds, and other animals of Lapland, and the
entire feétions on-infeéts, botany, and mineralogy ; alfo the laft fe&tion, which
contains fome general obfervations relative to meteorology and natural hiftory.
however,
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