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CONCERNING LAPLAND. 143
SECTION II.
Of the Origin of the Laplanders.
y Sac whence the Laplanders derive their origin they them-
felves are wholly ignorant. The moft general opinion is,
that they are defcended from the ancient Finni, or Finns, and
this fuppofition appears to our miffionary, as it muft to all men of
fenfe, more probable than the notion of thofe who deduce their
defcent from the ancient Hebrews. The coincidences, on the
ftrength.of which the advocates for the Hebrew origin fupport
their opinion, the miffionary thinks it worth while to detail at fome
length. I fhall extract the principal of them, not from any idea
that they are worthy of ferious attention, but merely for the pur-
pofe of adding a few to the many examples which are already be-
fore the world of the fancies and conceits of etymologifts.— In
“ the firft place, the Laplanders generally have black hair, fo have
“ the Jews; the Jews are of {mall ftature, fo are the Laplanders :
“ Saturday was confecrated to devotion among the Jews; fo it
“« was alfo, before the introdu¢tion of Chriftianity, among the Lap-
*« Janders: the manner and modulation of the voice in finging the
“ pfalms in Lapland is very like that of the Jews in their fyna-
“ gogues: the Jews, when they offered up facrifices to God, were
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