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146 GENERAL REMARKS
The Bifhop fuppofes that the Laplanders were moft probably the
earlieft inhabitants of Sweden and Norway, and the firft adven-
turers from Scythia, being driven from the fouthern parts of Scan-
dinavia into thofe dreary deferts by fubfequent hordes, who over-
ran the diftricts of the weft and fouth, feeking for room and fub-
fiftence. Not only their manners and cuftoms at this day dif-
cover pretty manifeft traces of their Scythian origin, but thofe
difmal regions lying towards the Frozen Ocean, from the Ruffian
province of Kamtfchatka, are ftill inhabited by a race of men
fimilar to the Laplanders, and who, like them, may have been
forced back into the rude retreats of freedom, long before national
records and credible hiftory.
rived from one of thefe three Swedifh words: /app, which fignifies a wolf; or
lappa, which denotes a bat; or laftly, apa, which means to run. ‘There can be
no abfurdity in adopting, on the hypothefis of the Bifhop of Drontheim and
Scheffer, either of thefe etymologies. The clothing of the Laplanders juftifies
the firft, their ill-favourednefs the fecond, and their wandering manner of life the
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