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144 GENERAL REMARKS
“wont to eat the greater part of the offerings themfelves; fo
* alfo did the Laplanders in facrificing to their idols—they con-
« fumed the flefh themfelves, leaving nothing to their divinities
*« but the bare bones: it was the men who were the cooks among
‘© the Jews; fo alfo it is the men, not the women, who are the
‘cooks among the Laplanders. Some of the Jewifh laws re-
“ fpeting the phyfical condition of women were anciently ob-
« ferved alfo by the Laplanders.”’
The miffionary obferves, that there are many coincidences in
the manners and modes of life of the Laplanders and the ancient
Scythians. The garments of the Laplanders, like thofe of the
Scythians, confift in the fkins of wild beafts. The Scythians, like
the Laplanders, neglecting agriculture, had no fixed habitations,
but wandered about with their wives and children from place to
place, and derived their fubfiftence from their herds of cattle.
Our author alfo remarks very ftriking affinities between the lan-
guages of ancient Scythia and Lapland: for example, thunder,
which the Scythians called ferami, the Laplanders exprefs by
tiermes.
The miffionary has nothing to object to the general opinion
that the Laplanders were originally of the fame race with the
Swedifh Finns or Finlanders; an opinion founded on a ftriking
fimilitude of names and other circumftances. But, after granting
that the Laplanders and Finns may probably have been once the
fame people, and that the marks of difcrimination now exifting
between them may have been gradually brought on by the courfe
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